{"id":5040,"date":"2020-02-11T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2020-02-11T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T16:22:44","slug":"my-chapter-16-qa-with-alice-faye-duncan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5040","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Chapter 16<\/em> Q&#038;A with Alice Faye Duncan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2020\/02\/afd.JPG\"><br \/>\n<center><em><strong><font size=2>&#8220;I wrote <\/em>Just Like a Mama<em> to celebrate and affirm adopted children. I also wrote it to acknowledge the aunts, grandmothers, and<br \/>big sisters who cheerfully care for children not their own.&#8221;<\/font><\/strong><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at Tennessee&#8217;s <em>Chapter 16<\/em>, I talk to author Alice Faye Duncan about her newest picture book, <em>Just Like a Mama<\/em> (Denene Millner Books, January 2020), illustrated by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow. <\/p>\n<p>My chat with Duncan is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chapter16.org\/unconditional-love-101\/?fbclid=IwAR33zuaGi-gxvdgMDekxDykYVufKRPk4iST1xXR2fPOZ5kBLjcOiwpXkSA0\">here<\/a><\/strong>. (Note: Barlow actually visited 7-Imp last year to talk about making the illustrations for this, her debut picture book. That post is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4965\">here<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I wrote Just Like a Mama to celebrate and affirm adopted children. I also wrote it to acknowledge the aunts, grandmothers, andbig sisters who cheerfully care for children not their own.&#8221; Over at Tennessee&#8217;s Chapter 16, I talk to author Alice Faye Duncan about her newest picture book, Just Like a Mama (Denene Millner Books, [&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-5040","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\/5040","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=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}