{"id":4741,"date":"2018-10-18T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2018-10-18T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:50:02","slug":"come-one-come-alla-conversation-with-anastasia-higginbotham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4741","title":{"rendered":"Come One, Come All:<br>A Conversation with Anastasia Higginbotham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/10\/NMI-Nashville-Parnassusfp.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nA week from today at Parnassus Books, I&#8217;ll have a conversation with author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/anastasiahigginbotham.com\/\">Anastasia Higginbotham<\/a><\/strong> about her newest picture book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781948340007\"><strong>Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness<\/strong><\/a><\/em> (Dottir Press, September 2018). This book is part of her Ordinary Terrible Things series, which I&#8217;ve written about <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/gimme-some-truth\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. (Wanna see art from two previous books in that series? Head to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4252\">this 7-Imp post<\/a><\/strong>.) <\/p>\n<p>All the details about our conversation next week are in this handy-dandy image (above) that I didn&#8217;t even have to make, but <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parnassusbooks.net\/event\/childrens-author-event-anastasia-higginbotham-author-not-my-idea-book-about-whiteness\">here<\/a><\/strong> is more information at Parnassus&#8217;s site, should you need it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A week from today at Parnassus Books, I&#8217;ll have a conversation with author-illustrator Anastasia Higginbotham about her newest picture book, Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Dottir Press, September 2018). This book is part of her Ordinary Terrible Things series, which I&#8217;ve written about here. (Wanna see art from two previous books in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","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=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}