{"id":4738,"date":"2018-10-14T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T06:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2018-10-12T13:35:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T19:35:51","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-608the-2018-southern-festivals-of-books-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4738","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #608,
the 2018 Southern Festivals of Books Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s a post title with a handful of numbers, now isn’t it. <\/p>\n

Here’s what I’m doing this weekend, and it’s a little bit different. I’m typing this on Friday, because tomorrow (Saturday, which will be yesterday when you read this) I will be at the wonderful Southern Festival of Books alllll<\/em> day. I will not only be able to kick back and hear a lot of talented authors and illustrators speak (here’s<\/a><\/strong> the line-up), but I will also interview Justice Sonia Sotomayor<\/a><\/strong> about her two new children’s books. I’m excited to meet her, to say the least. <\/p>\n

For Tennessee’s own fabulous and informative Chapter 16<\/em>, I did an online Q&A with Madame Justice, which you can read here<\/a><\/strong>. I also interviewed British author and illustrator Cressida Cowell<\/a><\/strong> (whom I hope to hear speak on Saturday) about her newest fantasy novel for children. That is here<\/a><\/strong>. (Pictured here is Justice Sotomayor’s adaptation for middle-grade readers of her bestselling memoir.) <\/p>\n

I will share seven separate kicks next week. Today (Sunday, the day you’re reading this — confused yet?), all seven kicks (plus some) are that it’s my youngest daughter’s birthday! She is officially a teenager today. We shall party down all day. <\/p>\n

What are YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s a post title with a handful of numbers, now isn’t it. Here’s what I’m doing this weekend, and it’s a little bit different. I’m typing this on Friday, because tomorrow (Saturday, which will be yesterday when you read this) I will be at the wonderful Southern Festival of Books alllll day. I will not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738","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=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}