{"id":4572,"date":"2018-03-01T14:20:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2018-03-01T14:20:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:20:50","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-rafael-yockteng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4572","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Rafael Yockteng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/02\/Rafael Yocktengforpost.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">It is a compliment to me that my books are published in North America, as it is the opportunity to unite a very fragmented world.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk with Colombian illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edicioneseljineteazul.com\/web.php?seccion=colaboradores&#038;id=106&#038;idioma=es\">Rafael Yockteng<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about his newest picture book, written by Jairo Buitrago \u2014 <em>On the Other Side of the Garden<\/em> (Groundwood, March 2018). <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/nighttime-stroll-rafael-yockteng\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Next week, I&#8217;ll follow up here at 7-Imp with a bit more art from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Rafael Yockteng taken by Gabriela Montoya.<\/em>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is a compliment to me that my books are published in North America, as it is the opportunity to unite a very fragmented world.\u201d * * * Over at Kirkus today, I talk with Colombian illustrator Rafael Yockteng, pictured here, about his newest picture book, written by Jairo Buitrago \u2014 On the Other Side [&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-4572","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\/4572","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=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}