{"id":1390,"date":"2013-01-14T17:13:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T23:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2013-01-14T17:15:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T23:15:14","slug":"1390","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/01\/14\/1390\/","title":{"rendered":"De Bellis book now available at Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/01\/14\/1390\/updikebook-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1393\" alt=\"Updikebook\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/01\/Updikebook1.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/01\/Updikebook1.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/01\/Updikebook1-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Jack De Bellis&#8217;s\u00a0<em>John Updike&#8217;s Early Years<\/em> is now available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1611461308\/ref=rdr_ext_tmb\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Updike\u2019s Early Years<\/em>\u00a0first examines his family, then places him in the context of the Depression and World War II. Relying upon interviews with former classmates, the next chapters examine Updike\u2019s early life and leisure activities, his athletic ability, social leadership, intellectual prowess, comical pranks, and his experience with girls. Two chapters explore Updike\u2019s cartooning and drawing, and the last chapter explains how he modeled his characters on his schoolmates. Lists of Updike\u2019s works treating Pennsylvania, and a compilation of contributions to his school paper are included, along with profiles of all students, faculty and administrators during his years at Shillington High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack De Bellis&#8217;s\u00a0John Updike&#8217;s Early Years is now available at Amazon.com. John Updike\u2019s Early Years\u00a0first examines his family, then places him in the context of the Depression and World War II. Relying upon interviews with former classmates, the next chapters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/01\/14\/1390\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","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=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}