{"id":16148,"date":"2012-09-19T09:53:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=16148"},"modified":"2012-09-20T10:13:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:13:18","slug":"local-author-to-discuss-womens-center-fall-reading-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/09\/19\/local-author-to-discuss-womens-center-fall-reading-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Local author to discuss Women\u2019s Center fall reading selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16149\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/09\/19\/local-author-to-discuss-womens-center-fall-reading-selection\/reasonshappyv\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16149\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16149\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/09\/ReasonsHappyV-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the book cover\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katrina Kittle, author of &quot;Reasons to Be Happy,&quot; will participate in a book discussion on October 23.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An emotionally charged novel detailing the turbulent life of an eighth-grade girl struggling to accept life-altering changes has been chosen as this year\u2019s Women\u2019s Center Fall Reading Selection.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reasons to Be Happy<\/em> by Katrina Kittle chronicles the life of Hannah, the daughter of two Hollywood movie stars.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah often feels physically belittled by her parents\u2019 dashing looks. Upon her mother\u2019s death and her father\u2019s resulting grief, Hannah is forced to deal with her problems on her own.<\/p>\n<p>As her fragile self-esteem begins to fracture, she develops an eating disorder\u2014the primary subject of the novel. <em>Reasons to Be Happy<\/em> follows Hannah\u2019s journey towards recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Center will host book discussions on Wednesday, October 17, and Tuesday, October 23, from noon to 1 p.m. The author herself will participate in the October 23 event.<\/p>\n<p>Those wishing to participate in the fall reading discussions can reserve one of the available copies of <em>Reasons to Be Happy<\/em> by visiting the Women\u2019s Center in 148 Millett Hall or by calling (937) 775-4524.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An emotionally charged novel detailing the turbulent life of an eighth-grade girl struggling to accept life-altering changes has been chosen as this year\u2019s Women\u2019s Center Fall Reading Selection. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/09\/19\/local-author-to-discuss-womens-center-fall-reading-selection\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":16150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16148"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16178,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16148\/revisions\/16178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}