{"id":1460,"date":"2015-11-09T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2015-12-19T13:58:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T18:58:42","slug":"breakfast-meeting-january-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-january-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Meeting January 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/joe_portrait.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1440\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-october-17-2014\/joe_portrait\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/joe_portrait.jpg?fit=300%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,450\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 10D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1101829149&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"joe_portrait\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/joe_portrait.jpg?fit=300%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-1440 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/joe_portrait.jpg?resize=172%2C258\" alt=\"joe_portrait\" width=\"172\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/joe_portrait.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/joe_portrait.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a>Joseph Kertes\u00a0founded Humber College&#8217;s creative writing and comedy programs. He is currently Humber&#8217;s Dean of Creative and Performing Arts and is a recipient of numerous awards for teaching and innovation. His first novel,\u00a0<em>Winter Tulips<\/em>, won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour.\u00a0<em>Boardwalk<\/em>, his second novel, and two children&#8217;s books,\u00a0<em>The Gift\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Red Corduroy Shirt<\/em>, met with critical acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>His novel,\u00a0<em>Gratitude<\/em>, won a Canadian National Jewish Book Award and the U.S. National Jewish Book Award for Fiction.\u00a0Kertes has also been a finalist for a National Magazine Award and the CBC\u00a0Literary Award.<\/p>\n<p>His latest novel is called <em>The Afterlife of Stars<\/em>, and it is published by Penguin Canada. Richard Bausch said of it that \u201cit is blazing with every good thing a work of fiction ever does or could do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Kertes\u00a0founded Humber College&#8217;s creative writing and comedy programs. He is currently Humber&#8217;s Dean of Creative and Performing Arts and is a recipient of numerous awards for teaching and innovation. His first novel,\u00a0Winter Tulips, won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour.\u00a0Boardwalk, his second novel, and two children&#8217;s books,\u00a0The Gift\u00a0and\u00a0The Red Corduroy Shirt, met with critical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-january-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breakfast Meeting January 16<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RivX-ny","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}