{"id":24102,"date":"2023-01-03T10:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T04:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/?p=24102"},"modified":"2023-01-03T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T05:34:57","slug":"in-a-heartbeat-anthology-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/in-a-heartbeat-anthology-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"In A Heartbeat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the short animated film&nbsp;<em>In A Heartbeat<\/em>, a young man is quite literally torn between his heart and his mind when he develops feelings for one of his male classmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film has garnered praise worldwide for its honest portrayal of the internal struggle that many queer people go through from a young age, navigating societal stigma and their own desires. In an industry that often ignores or stereotypes people of minority sexual orientations, this film is a refreshing take on young love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch as the main character frantically tries to hide his feelings from the object of his affection, only to be surprised at the very end!&nbsp;<em>In A Heartbeat&nbsp;<\/em>manages to convey the complexity, heartbreak and joy embedded in having a crush, while also honouring the diversity of love \u2013 all in 4 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"In a Heartbeat - Animated Short Film\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2REkk9SCRn0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><sup>We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This video was part of our September 2017 issue, <\/em>Fiction and Sexuality<em>, and was originally published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/video-page-in-a-heartbeat\/\">here<\/a>.  <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In A Heartbeat features a young man is quite literally torn between his heart and his mind when he develops feelings for one of his male classmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":12388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3923,13,7],"tags":[40,99,780,1425],"class_list":{"0":"post-24102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anthology-issue-jan-2023","8":"category-videopage","9":"category-visualcorner","10":"tag-queer","11":"tag-relationships","12":"tag-sexual-orientation","13":"tag-young-love"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24130,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102\/revisions\/24130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}