{"id":4688,"date":"2018-08-02T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2018-08-02T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:31:38","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-don-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Don Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/08\/Don-Brown-photoforpost.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">[V]isiting Greece underscored the human scale of the tragedy. It was happening to ordinary men, women, and children, no different than my family and neighbors. The visit left me determined to tell the refugees&#8217; story with both accuracy and sympathy. They don&#8217;t deserve less.\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=1609\">Don Brown<\/a><\/strong> about his latest graphic novel, <em>The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/stories-unwanted-don-brown\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll follow up with some more images from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[V]isiting Greece underscored the human scale of the tragedy. It was happening to ordinary men, women, and children, no different than my family and neighbors. The visit left me determined to tell the refugees&#8217; story with both accuracy and sympathy. They don&#8217;t deserve less.\u201d * * * Over at Kirkus today, I talk with author-illustrator [&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-4688","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\/4688","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=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}