{"id":4429,"date":"2017-08-25T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2017-08-25T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T18:25:27","slug":"all-the-way-to-havanawith-margarita-engle-and-mike-curato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"<em>All the Way to Havana<\/em><br>with Margarita Engle and Mike Curato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/08\/mandm.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I didn\u2019t want this to be a sanitized story for tourists, but an honest book honoring the hard work of poor people everywhere, who keep their old possessions working out of sheer ingenuity and perseverance.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/margaritaengle.com\/\">Margarita Engle<\/a><\/strong> I&#8217;m quoting here, who talks to me, along with illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3507\">Mike Curato<\/a><\/strong>, over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today about their new picture book, <em>All the Way to Havana<\/em> (Henry Holt, August 2017). <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/sightseeing-margarita-engle-and-mike-curato\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, I&#8217;ll have some more art from the book here at 7-Imp. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;I didn\u2019t want this to be a sanitized story for tourists, but an honest book honoring the hard work of poor people everywhere, who keep their old possessions working out of sheer ingenuity and perseverance.\u201d &nbsp; * * * That&#8217;s Margarita Engle I&#8217;m quoting here, who talks to me, along with illustrator Mike Curato, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}