{"id":1349,"date":"2012-11-08T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T00:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2012-11-08T18:07:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T00:07:47","slug":"in-a-post-election-essay-tanenhaus-praises-rabbit-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2012\/11\/08\/in-a-post-election-essay-tanenhaus-praises-rabbit-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"In a post-election essay, Tanenhaus praises Rabbit Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2012\/11\/628x471.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2012\/11\/628x471-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2012\/11\/628x471-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2012\/11\/628x471.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Sam Tanenhaus, who interviewed John Updike on many occasions, wrote in a post-election essay that <em>Rabbit Redux<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;remains the most illuminating and prophetic of modern political novels, though on the surface it seems not about politics at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/18\/books\/review\/john-updikes-rabbit-redux-and-white-working-class-angst.html?pagewanted=all\">&#8220;John Updike&#8217;s &#8216;Rabbit Redux&#8217; and White Working-Class Angst,&#8221;<\/a> with thanks to Maria Mogford for drawing our attention to it. The photo is courtesy of <em>The New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Tanenhaus, who interviewed John Updike on many occasions, wrote in a post-election essay that Rabbit Redux\u00a0&#8220;remains the most illuminating and prophetic of modern political novels, though on the surface it seems not about politics at all.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the link &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2012\/11\/08\/in-a-post-election-essay-tanenhaus-praises-rabbit-redux\/\">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-1349","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\/1349","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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}