{"id":1466,"date":"2015-11-09T09:13:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T14:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2016-02-16T15:48:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:48:05","slug":"breakfast-meeting-april-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-april-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Meeting April 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/anthonydesa\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1538\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1538\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-april-16\/anthonydesa\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anthonydesa.jpg?fit=2400%2C3000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2400,3000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"anthonydesa\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anthonydesa.jpg?fit=474%2C593&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-1538 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anthonydesa.jpg?resize=221%2C276\" alt=\"anthonydesa\" width=\"221\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anthonydesa.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anthonydesa.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anthonydesa.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anthonydesa.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anthonydesa.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anthonydesa.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>Anthony De Sa grew up in Toronto\u2019s Portuguese community. His short fiction has been published in several North American literary magazines. <strong>Barnacle Love <\/strong>is Anthony&#8217;s first book. It was critically acclaimed and became a finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2009 Toronto Book Award.<\/p>\n<p>His novel, <strong>Kicking the Sky<\/strong>, was released in September, 2013. The novel was set in 1977, the year a twelve-year-old shoeshine boy named Emanuel Jaques was brutally raped and murdered in Toronto. It was finalist for the 2014 Libris Award, the Canadian Authors\u2019 Association Fiction Award 2014, and the 2014 Toronto Book Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony De Sa grew up in Toronto\u2019s Portuguese community. His short fiction has been published in several North American literary magazines. Barnacle Love is Anthony&#8217;s first book. It was critically acclaimed and became a finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2009 Toronto Book Award. His novel, Kicking the Sky, was released in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-april-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breakfast Meeting April 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-1466","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-nE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","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=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}