{"id":5776,"date":"2018-09-26T02:56:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T02:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2018-09-26T04:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T04:27:38","slug":"michael-martchenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/michael-martchenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Martchenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago when being an author seemed like an unattainable dream, I had a second seemingly unattainable dream: that Michael Martchenko would illustrate a book that I wrote. As it turned out, he became the illustrator for my very first book, <em>Silver Threads<\/em>. He also illustrated the book that made me a princess, <em>Enough<\/em>. I saw Michael tonight at a Scholastic Canada do and asked my friend Natalie Hyde to take this pic. The last time we had our pic taken was 17 years ago when Enough was launched.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/michaelmarasha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5777\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/michaelmarasha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1472\" height=\"1213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/michaelmarasha.jpg 1472w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/michaelmarasha-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/michaelmarasha-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/michaelmarasha-1024x844.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/michaelmarasha-1200x989.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5776 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/teachers-guides\/silverthreads\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/silverthreads-300x272.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"silverthreads\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/silverthreads-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/silverthreads-150x136.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/silverthreads.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/enough-teachers-guide\/enoughl\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/enoughL-278x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"enough\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/enoughL-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/enoughL-139x150.jpg 139w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/enoughL.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 85vw, 278px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/cover_silverthreads\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"186\" height=\"149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cover_silverthreads.gif\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-78\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-78'>\n\t\t\t\tUkrainian edition\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/cover_enough\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cover_enough.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cover_enough.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cover_enough-136x150.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago when being an author seemed like an unattainable dream, I had a second seemingly unattainable dream: that Michael Martchenko would illustrate a book that I wrote. As it turned out, he became the illustrator for my very first book, Silver Threads. He also illustrated the book that made me a princess, Enough. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/michael-martchenko\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Martchenko&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[369,9,440],"class_list":["post-5776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-enough","tag-michael-martchenko","tag-silver-threads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5779,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions\/5779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}