{"id":1484,"date":"2013-04-23T21:40:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T02:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2013-04-23T21:40:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T02:40:44","slug":"blogger-the-ghost-of-john-updike-and-the-boston-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/04\/23\/blogger-the-ghost-of-john-updike-and-the-boston-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger: &#8220;The Ghost of John Updike and the Boston Bombing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/04\/51rqwnocIdL._SY300_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1485\" alt=\"51rqwnocIdL._SY300_\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/04\/51rqwnocIdL._SY300_.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, blogger William Thornton posted a reconsideration of Updike&#8217;s novel <em>Terrorist<\/em>: &#8220;will the events of last week and the coming weeks&#8217; vindicate one of John Updike&#8217;s last, and least regarded, novels?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brilliantdisguises.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/John%20Updike%20Terrorist%20Dzhokhar%20Tsarnaev%20Boston%20Marathon%20Bombing\">&#8220;The Ghost of John Updike and the Boston Bombing&#8221; <\/a>was posted on\u00a0<em>Brilliant Disguises: A Christian Look at Contemporary and Classic Literary Fiction and Culture<\/em> on Sunday, April 21, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, Thornton concludes, &#8220;Updike&#8217;s depiction of the War on Terror has a disquieting moral equivalency between Islamic fundamentalist terrorism and America&#8217;s reaction about it, and that reads less charitably after an event like the Boston Marathon attack and the city&#8217;s response.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, blogger William Thornton posted a reconsideration of Updike&#8217;s novel Terrorist: &#8220;will the events of last week and the coming weeks&#8217; vindicate one of John Updike&#8217;s last, and least regarded, novels?&#8221; &#8220;The Ghost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/04\/23\/blogger-the-ghost-of-john-updike-and-the-boston-bombing\/\">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-1484","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\/1484","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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}