{"id":1251,"date":"2012-08-25T07:06:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T12:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2012-08-25T07:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T12:06:49","slug":"obit-web-magazine-spotlights-updikes-dark-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2012\/08\/25\/obit-web-magazine-spotlights-updikes-dark-certainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Obit web magazine spotlights &#8220;Updike&#8217;s Dark Certainty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2012\/08\/Screen-Shot-2012-08-25-at-7.05.55-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1252\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-08-25 at 7.05.55 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2012\/08\/Screen-Shot-2012-08-25-at-7.05.55-AM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The online magazine <em>Obit<\/em>\u2014whose tagline in &#8220;Death is only half the story. Obit is about life . . .&#8221;\u2014featured John Updike on January 28, 2009. In <a href=\"http:\/\/ht.ly\/d5oKQ\">&#8220;Updike&#8217;s Dark Certainty,&#8221;<\/a> Robert Roper visits &#8220;Updike country\u2014the region where suburban platting meets knicker-dropping&#8221; and offers an lyrical-interpretive summary of Updike&#8217;s literary life, along with a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ht.ly\/d5oKQ\">bottom-story link<\/a> to several obits and appraisals of Updike.<\/p>\n<p>The item comes to us belatedly from Dave Lull, via Larry Randen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The online magazine Obit\u2014whose tagline in &#8220;Death is only half the story. Obit is about life . . .&#8221;\u2014featured John Updike on January 28, 2009. In &#8220;Updike&#8217;s Dark Certainty,&#8221; Robert Roper visits &#8220;Updike country\u2014the region where suburban platting meets knicker-dropping&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2012\/08\/25\/obit-web-magazine-spotlights-updikes-dark-certainty\/\">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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","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=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}