{"id":3265,"date":"2021-11-20T22:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T03:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2024-09-21T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T14:45:16","slug":"what-were-into-your-heart-is-a-muscle-the-size-of-a-fist-by-sunil-yapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2021\/11\/20\/what-were-into-your-heart-is-a-muscle-the-size-of-a-fist-by-sunil-yapa\/","title":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;re Into: &#8220;Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist&#8221; by Sunil Yapa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this novel on the back porch of my childhood home in a sleepy suburb of the Pacific Northwest over the summer, and was struck by the nearby history that I had never learned. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist 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\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s poignant, lyrical phrasing. Every chapter rotates to a new character\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s point of view, forcing perspective 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 \u201a\u00c4\u00ec or should &#8211; have on the bigger picture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Elizabeth Anderson &#8217;18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this novel on the back porch of my childhood home in a sleepy suburb of the Pacific Northwest <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2021\/11\/20\/what-were-into-your-heart-is-a-muscle-the-size-of-a-fist-by-sunil-yapa\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2074,"featured_media":3344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwr","category-love-letter-to-art"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","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\/2074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}