{"id":4509,"date":"2017-12-07T08:15:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2017-12-07T08:15:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:15:40","slug":"matt-tavares-on-red-lulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4509","title":{"rendered":"Matt Tavares on <em>Red &#038; Lulu<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/12\/Matt_Tavaresforpost.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">When my kids were little, it turned into sort of a game, where we\u2019d notice the bright red male cardinal out at the bird feeder [in our yard], and we\u2019d try to find the female cardinal. And sure enough, she was usually nearby. It made me wonder what would happen if they ever became separated, and how far one might go to find the other. I felt like there was a story there.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk with author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1894\">Matt Tavares<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about his newest picture book, <em>Red &#038; Lulu<\/em> (Candlewick, September 2017).  <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/christmas-red-and-lulu\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When my kids were little, it turned into sort of a game, where we\u2019d notice the bright red male cardinal out at the bird feeder [in our yard], and we\u2019d try to find the female cardinal. And sure enough, she was usually nearby. It made me wonder what would happen if they ever became separated, [&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-4509","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\/4509","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=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}