{"id":4502,"date":"2017-11-24T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T18:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2017-11-24T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T18:15:54","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-chris-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4502","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Chris Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/11\/Chris Harris credit Cliff LipsonCBSforpost.jpeg\" style=\"float:right;\">Have you seen Chris Harris&#8217;s <em>I\u2019m Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups<\/em>, illustrated by Lane Smith? You may have already read about this book, as it&#8217;s received a whole host of starred reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk with Chris, pictured here, about this book, what it&#8217;s been like to enter the world of children&#8217;s lit (he comes from the world of television \u2014 writing and producing, that is), and what it was like to work with Lane. <\/p>\n<p>He also lobs some fruit at me. <\/p>\n<p>Next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll follow up with some more art and verses from the book. <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/getting-truth-chris-harris\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Chris taken by Cliff Lipson.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen Chris Harris&#8217;s I\u2019m Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups, illustrated by Lane Smith? You may have already read about this book, as it&#8217;s received a whole host of starred reviews. Over at Kirkus today, I talk with Chris, pictured here, about this book, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502","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=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}