{"id":5514,"date":"2022-01-25T05:46:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T11:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2022-01-25T05:46:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T11:46:01","slug":"my-chapter-16-qa-with-kathlyn-j-kirkwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5514","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Chapter 16<\/em> Q&#038;A with Kathlyn J. Kirkwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2022\/01\/Kathlyn Kirkwood7.jpg\">Over at Tennessee&#8217;s <em>Chapter 16<\/em>, I talk to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kathlynjkirkwood.com\/\">Kathlyn J. Kirkwood<\/a><\/strong> about her new middle-grade memoir in verse. <\/p>\n<p>In <em>Ain\u2019t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me \u2018Round: My Story Of The Making Of Martin Luther King Day<\/em> (Versify, January 2022) with illustrations by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steffiwalthallart.com\/\">Steffi Walthall<\/a><\/strong>, Kirkwood shares memories of her growing civic awareness and activism as a teenager in Memphis as well as her decades-long struggle to turn Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s birthday into a national holiday. <\/p>\n<p>Our chat is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chapter16.org\/foot-soldier-for-justice\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Dr. Kirkwood is \u00a9 Padrion Scott, Sr. \/ P. Scott Photography.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Tennessee&#8217;s Chapter 16, I talk to Kathlyn J. Kirkwood about her new middle-grade memoir in verse. In Ain\u2019t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me \u2018Round: My Story Of The Making Of Martin Luther King Day (Versify, January 2022) with illustrations by Steffi Walthall, Kirkwood shares memories of her growing civic awareness and activism as [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","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=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}