{"id":1067,"date":"2014-08-06T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2014-08-05T20:45:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T01:45:20","slug":"sneaky-peeks-video-1-n-d-wilson-discusses-boys-of-blur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"Sneaky Peeks Video #1: N.D. Wilson discusses Boys of Blur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[This is one of a series of videos celebrating the release of our book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children&#8217;s Literature<\/a><\/em> by revealing behind-the-scenes scoops on 2014 books]<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve heard folks discussing a book best described as &#8220;Beowulf meets zombies&#8221; then they&#8217;re probably talking about N.D. Wilson&#8217;s amazing <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/afuse8production\/2014\/04\/15\/review-of-the-day-boys-of-blur-by-n-d-wilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boys of Blur<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Set in the sugarcane heart of Florida, Wilson&#8217;s story grabs you by the throat and doesn&#8217;t let go until the last searing page.\u00a0 As it happens, he&#8217;s also a natural in front of the camera.\u00a0 Hear Nate discuss his latest and some of the influences behind the writing:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D4RaSRrWrsg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read Betsy&#8217;s review of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/afuse8production\/2014\/04\/15\/review-of-the-day-boys-of-blur-by-n-d-wilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This is one of a series of videos celebrating the release of our book Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children&#8217;s Literature by revealing behind-the-scenes scoops on 2014 books] If you&#8217;ve heard folks discussing a book best described as &#8220;Beowulf meets zombies&#8221; then they&#8217;re probably talking about N.D. Wilson&#8217;s amazing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}