{"id":1050,"date":"2011-12-13T12:36:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T18:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2012-01-02T11:09:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T17:09:28","slug":"you-really-can-buy-anything-on-ebay-updike-house-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/12\/13\/you-really-can-buy-anything-on-ebay-updike-house-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"You really CAN buy anything on Ebay: Updike house for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-13-at-12.29.42-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1051\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-13-at-12.29.42-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Niemczyk Hoffman Group, which owns and occupies the Updike boyhood home in Shillington, has decided to test the market. They&#8217;ve put the house at 117 Philadelphia Avenue up for sale on Ebay. The price is $499,000, with the starting bid set at $249,000.00.<\/p>\n<p>The description of the property is full of history, and they&#8217;ve also posted a list of Updike books and mentioned the Society archive at Alvernia.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/John-Updike-Home-American-Novelist-Historic-Boyhood-Home-Shillington-PA-\/300636482845?pt=Residential&amp;hash=item45ff54ad1d\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s how others see the sale:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John Updike&#8217;s Boyhood Home Is a Real Fixer-Upper&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/entertainment\/2011\/12\/john-updikes-boyhood-home-real-fixer-upper\/46125\/\">The Atlantic Wire<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do People Pay More for Houses Once Occupied by Famous Writers?&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2011\/12\/13\/john_updike_home_for_sale_on_ebay_do_people_pay_more_for_writers_houses_.html\">Slate Magazine<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to member Larry C. Randen for the article links.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Niemczyk Hoffman Group, which owns and occupies the Updike boyhood home in Shillington, has decided to test the market. They&#8217;ve put the house at 117 Philadelphia Avenue up for sale on Ebay. The price is $499,000, with the starting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/12\/13\/you-really-can-buy-anything-on-ebay-updike-house-for-sale\/\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","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=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}