{"id":1467,"date":"2012-04-19T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2012-04-19T14:26:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T19:26:57","slug":"cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=1467","title":{"rendered":"Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d go ahead and post the cover of Happy Birthday, Tree, illustrated by the fabulous\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.janachristy.com\">Jana Christy<\/a>. I love her work, especially her springtime art and her punk rock paper dolls. And I want pretty much every outfit I&#8217;ve seen her characters wear. (Ever since she saw the illustrations for Happy Birthday, Tree, my daughter has kept an eye out in stores for Joni&#8217;s hat. If you happen to see it, let us know so we can purchase right away!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting to see which book ends up being my official &#8220;first book.&#8221; The one I sold first keeps getting bumped back due to the illustrator&#8217;s schedule. But Happy Birthday, Tree and The Schmutzy Family appear to keep moving<em> up.<\/em> Both are due out in early fall. I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to be head-over-heels in love with every illustrator I&#8217;ve been assigned so far, but somehow there&#8217;s still a feeling of shock &#8212; diving-board-into-the-pool shock &#8212; when I see my words captured by someone else&#8217;s imagination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/514nGYqNMGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1468\" title=\"514nGYqNMGL._SL500_AA300_\" src=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/514nGYqNMGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"514nGYqNMGL._SL500_AA300_\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/514nGYqNMGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/514nGYqNMGL._SL500_AA300_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d go ahead and post the cover of Happy Birthday, Tree, illustrated by the fabulous\u00a0Jana Christy. I love her work, especially her springtime art and her punk rock paper dolls. And I want pretty much every outfit I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=1467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-kidlit","category-mission-possible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}