{"id":304409,"date":"2026-06-11T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304409\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:07:11","slug":"fl-wildlife-inspires-st-pete-artists-take-on-where-the-wild-things-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304409\/","title":{"rendered":"FL Wildlife Inspires St. Pete Artist&#8217;s Take On &#8216;Where The Wild Things Are&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo we&#8217;re hoping maybe we&#8217;ll inspire people to get involved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kostar and McAllister will do a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1726942398349518&amp;set=a.841473146896452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reading of \u201cWhere the Wild Things Live\u201d <\/a>during the Second Saturday Artwalk this weekend at Floridarama, 5 to 6 p.m. He\u2019ll also appear at the June 21 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1507806481017318?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A%5B%7B%22surface%22%3A%22home%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22search_results%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22search%22%7D%5D%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Queerlastic Book Fair<\/a> at St. Petersburg City Theatre. <\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Kostar said his first publishing experience, while a learning experience, opened up new possibilities for his work, including illustrating more children\u2019s books in the future. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been really eye opening. I just realized that I don&#8217;t have to be stuck in just doing one thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>See Also: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSo we&#8217;re hoping maybe we&#8217;ll inspire people to get involved,\u201d he said. Kostar and McAllister will do a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-304409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}