{"id":971,"date":"2007-10-31T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T06:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=971"},"modified":"2007-11-01T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T19:17:01","slug":"blogging-for-a-cure-day-17-including-a-note-on-yesterdays-awesome-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Blogging for a Cure, Day 17 (including a note on yesterday&#8217;s <em>awesome<\/em>-ness)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/mo's flake2.jpg\">Happy Halloween! Below is the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyfund.org\/eve\/event\/roberts-snow\/view-snowflakes-online.html\">Robert&#8217;s Snow<\/a><\/strong> schedule for Wednesday, October 31, 2007. Pictured here is an older snowflake, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mowillems.com\">Mo Willems&#8217;<\/a><\/strong> 2005 creation, entitled &#8220;Snow Devil,&#8221; done in pencil and ink. Mo&#8217;s &#8217;07 snowflake, you&#8217;ll see below, is being featured today. <\/p>\n<p><center><font size=4><strong><em><strong>Wednesday, October 31, 2007<\/strong>:<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shawnajctenney.com\/\">Shawna Tenney<\/a><\/strong>, featured by Kate Messner at <a href=\"http:\/\/kmessner.livejournal.com\/26309.html\"><em><strong>Kate&#8217;s Book Blog<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamrex.com\">Adam Rex<\/a><\/strong>, featured by Stacy Dillon at <a href=\"http:\/\/booktopia.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/roberts-snow-adam-rex.html\"><strong><em>Booktopia<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tweendom.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/roberts-snow-adam-rex.html\"><em><strong>welcome to my tweendom<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mowillems.com\">Mo Willems<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, featured by Pamela Coughlan at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/2007\/10\/robert-snow-mo-willems.html\"><strong><em>MotherReader<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandasart.com\/\">Rolandas Kiaulevicius<\/a><\/strong>, featured by cloudscome at <a href=\"http:\/\/awrungsponge.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/roberts-snow-feature-rolandas.html\"><em><strong>a wrung sponge<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<p> <!--more--><\/ul>\n<p>Did you see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=969\">yesterday&#8217;s features<\/a><\/strong> and Linda Wingerter&#8217;s beautiful snowflake\/tree-topper? Every single feature was well-done, and thanks to all participating bloggers. Want the perfect snowflake, created by Ann Koffsky, for your Hanukkah bush, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dadtalk.typepad.com\/book_buds_kidlit_reviews\/2007\/10\/roberts-snow-oy.html\">as Anne at <em>Book Buds<\/em> put it<\/a><\/strong>? It&#8217;s a stunning papercut snowflake. Ann Koffsky told Anne, &#8220;Christmas seemed to be pretty well covered by all the other illustrators, so I wanted to create something that would speak to  a Jewish audience. The hope for Peace in Jerusalem as a symbol of the larger yearning for Peace for all humanity appears over and over in Jewish liturgy and artwork. I thought it would be wonderful to extend the motif into this project as well.&#8221; You can&#8217;t miss Gretel Parker&#8217;s &#8220;Snow Rabbit,&#8221; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/roberts-snow-gretel-parkers-snow-rabbit.html\">as featured by <em>Finding Wonderland<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. And you can<em>not<\/em> miss the Matt Phelan feature and his snowflake, &#8220;She Never Misses,&#8221; with a young girl holding a snowball, ready to aim, ready to fight (pictured below). Mary Lee at <em>A Year of Reading<\/em> wrapped up <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/readingyear.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/roberts-snow-matt-phelan.html\">her feature<\/a><\/strong> thusly; I have to share: <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/mattsnow2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>May Robert&#8217;s Snow be a giant blizzard of bidding that shuts down schools for five days. When it stops snowing, let&#8217;s meet at the park for a snowball fight. I get to be &#8220;She Never Misses,&#8221; and I personally want to throw the snowball (maybe with a rock or piece of ice in the center &#8212; he doesn&#8217;t play fair, so why should I) that hits Cancer right between the eyes so that snow goes behind his glasses and he&#8217;s blinded, he gets a bloody nose, and goes running to mommy. Take THAT, you creep, for the year of hell you gave me! And THAT for all of my friends you&#8217;ve pelted&#8230;especially the ones you&#8217;ve taken out of the game way too early.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mary Lee, that&#8217;s just <em>awesome<\/em>. I&#8217;m trying to stop using the adjective &#8220;awesome&#8221; for everything I love, but I&#8217;m sorry, I&#8217;ll stop tomorrow, because that&#8217;s just <em>awesome<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><em>All<\/em> the features yesterday were great. As I say every single day in case you&#8217;ve missed it, don&#8217;t forget <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?page_id=935\">this new page<\/a><\/strong> here at 7-Imp, updated daily, which lists <em>all<\/em> the illustrator features thus far in one spot, and it&#8217;s turning into a handy-dandy, way-cool illustrator resource for us Picture Book Nerds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Halloween! Below is the Robert&#8217;s Snow schedule for Wednesday, October 31, 2007. Pictured here is an older snowflake, Mo Willems&#8217; 2005 creation, entitled &#8220;Snow Devil,&#8221; done in pencil and ink. Mo&#8217;s &#8217;07 snowflake, you&#8217;ll see below, is being featured today. Wednesday, October 31, 2007: Shawna Tenney, featured by Kate Messner at Kate&#8217;s Book Blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-snow-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}