{"id":257,"date":"2018-02-02T13:30:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2019-09-22T01:14:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T05:14:59","slug":"your-heart-is-a-muscle-the-size-of-a-fist-by-sunil-yapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2018\/02\/02\/your-heart-is-a-muscle-the-size-of-a-fist-by-sunil-yapa\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended by Elizabeth Anderson<\/p>\n<p>I read this novel on the back porch of my childhood home in a sleepy\u00a0 suburb of the Pacific Northwest over the summer, and was struck by the nearby history that I had never learned. <i>Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist <\/i>is based on and takes place during the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle; its take on the historical facts of the event is painted by Yapa\u2019s poignant, lyrical phrasing. Every chapter rotates to a new character\u2019s point of view, forcing the reader to shift perspectives over the two days of protests. Our current global climate has created a very opportune time to read this novel, as it made me think about the role of activism in my life and what impacts an individual can\u2014 or should\u2014 have on the bigger picture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended by Elizabeth Anderson I read this novel on the back porch of my childhood home in a sleepy\u00a0 suburb <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2018\/02\/02\/your-heart-is-a-muscle-the-size-of-a-fist-by-sunil-yapa\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwr","category-what-were-reading"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}