{"id":1038,"date":"2011-11-26T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T23:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2011-11-26T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T23:04:48","slug":"obrien-for-president-blog-dredges-up-an-old-updike-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/11\/26\/obrien-for-president-blog-dredges-up-an-old-updike-story\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brien for President blog dredges up an old Updike story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2011\/11\/Imwithcoco250.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1039\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2011\/11\/Imwithcoco250-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Conan O&#8217;Brien insists he&#8217;s running for president in 2012, and recently his blog revived a May 26, 2011 post we all missed about an O&#8217;Brien-Updike connection.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, both O&#8217;Brien and Updike served as president of th<em>e <\/em><em>Lampoon <\/em>while at Harvard. But that&#8217;s not the connection. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obrien2012.com\/2011\/05\/the-conan-obrien-and-john-updike-80s-buddy-comedy-that-almost-was\/\">link<\/a>. Thanks to member Larry C. Randen for calling it to our attention. And Conan, if you&#8217;re reading this, how about commenting here about what Updike told you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conan O&#8217;Brien insists he&#8217;s running for president in 2012, and recently his blog revived a May 26, 2011 post we all missed about an O&#8217;Brien-Updike connection. Interestingly, both O&#8217;Brien and Updike served as president of the Lampoon while at Harvard. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/11\/26\/obrien-for-president-blog-dredges-up-an-old-updike-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}