{"id":4862,"date":"2019-04-21T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T06:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2019-04-20T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T20:52:01","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-635-featuringcarl-and-the-meaning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4862","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #635: Featuring<br><em>Carl and the Meaning of Life<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/04\/Carl cover.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nI&#8217;m sending you to the <em>Horn Book&#8217;s<\/em> site this morning for a review I wrote of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2239\">Deborah Freedman&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Carl and the Meaning of Life<\/em> (Viking, April 2019). How about that wonderful title? <\/p>\n<p>The review is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbook.com\/2019\/04\/choosing-books\/review-of-the-week\/review-of-carl-and-the-meaning-of-life\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>, if you&#8217;re so inclined to read it. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Note for any new readers: 7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks is a weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or not, that happened to you. New kickers are always welcome.<\/p>\n<p><center><font size=3><strong>* * * Jules&#8217; Kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font><br \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to take my seven-kicks space here today to wish you all a happy Easter, however you celebrate it. I always find it fun to dye eggs with my creative daughters, so that will probably happen today. Happy Spring to all you kickers!<\/p>\n<p>What are <strong><font size=4>YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;m sending you to the Horn Book&#8217;s site this morning for a review I wrote of Deborah Freedman&#8217;s Carl and the Meaning of Life (Viking, April 2019). How about that wonderful title? The review is here, if you&#8217;re so inclined to read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","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=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}