{"id":4475,"date":"2017-10-20T07:16:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2017-10-20T07:57:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:57:30","slug":"snooping-out-stories-with-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4475","title":{"rendered":"Snooping Out Stories with Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/10\/Jack at Carle Honorsforpostz.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><center><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">All of us should assume that young writers know the particulars of their world better than <\/em>we<em> know their world.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nToday over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I&#8217;ve a chat with award-winning author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=937\">Jack Gantos<\/a><\/strong> about his wonderful new book for upper elementary and middle-grade students, <em>Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories<\/em> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2017). <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/snooping-out-stories-jack\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo above of Jack at the 2017 Eric Carle Honors was taken by Johnny Wolf Photography.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All of us should assume that young writers know the particulars of their world better than we know their world.\u201d &nbsp; Today over at Kirkus, I&#8217;ve a chat with award-winning author Jack Gantos about his wonderful new book for upper elementary and middle-grade students, Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","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=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}