{"id":1448,"date":"2013-03-21T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T22:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2013-03-21T17:46:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T22:46:06","slug":"blogger-writes-about-the-happiest-ive-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/03\/21\/blogger-writes-about-the-happiest-ive-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger writes about &#8220;The Happiest I&#8217;ve Been&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/03\/765224431_bb66698b67_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1449\" alt=\"765224431_bb66698b67_m\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/03\/765224431_bb66698b67_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Chicago-based blogger Levi Stahl recently posted an entry on Updike&#8217;s 1959 short story &#8220;The Happiest I&#8217;ve Been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He writes that &#8220;the first thing I did after reading it was make two copies to send to friends. It&#8217;s that good, full of sharp observations expressed in sentences whose every word seems diligently labored over, glowing with a sense that it was chosen through deliberation aiming at perfection rather than the logorrhea of chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full post at <a href=\"http:\/\/ivebeenreadinglately.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/updike-reminds-us-what-its-like-to-be.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ivebeenreadinglately+%28Ivebeenreadinglately%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Ivebeenreadinglately<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago-based blogger Levi Stahl recently posted an entry on Updike&#8217;s 1959 short story &#8220;The Happiest I&#8217;ve Been.&#8221; He writes that &#8220;the first thing I did after reading it was make two copies to send to friends. It&#8217;s that good, full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/03\/21\/blogger-writes-about-the-happiest-ive-been\/\">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-1448","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\/1448","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=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}