{"id":1487,"date":"2013-04-25T12:36:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2013-04-25T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:48:10","slug":"mormon-journalist-considers-rogers-verison-shares-his-updike-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/04\/25\/mormon-journalist-considers-rogers-verison-shares-his-updike-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormon journalist considers Roger’s Version, shares his Updike encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"22933\"<\/a>John Updike has been labeled a “protestant writer,” so it’s always interesting to hear what people of other faiths\u2014especially articulate writers and inveterate readers\u2014have to say about him as a religious writer. In “New Harmony: Another Brush with John Updike,”<\/a> former Deseret News<\/em> staffer and current Mormon Times<\/em> and Faith<\/em> page freelancer Jerry Earl Johnston shares his take on Roger’s Version<\/em> . . . and a story involving the book he sent Updike for signing.<\/p>\n

“After his death, one critic called him ‘The Mozart of American Letters.’ There was not only genius in his work, but also generosity and a buoyant spirit,” Johnston writes, adding, “I suspect those qualities came from his faith.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Picture<\/a>“Deseret” was the name proposed by Mormon pioneers for a state (outlined) encompassing parts of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, and Oregon\u2014wherever Mormons had settled. \u00a0The term derives from the word for “honeybee” in the Book of Mormon<\/em>, one of the religion’s sacred texts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Updike has been labeled a “protestant writer,” so it’s always interesting to hear what people of other faiths\u2014especially articulate writers and inveterate readers\u2014have to say about him as a religious writer. In “New Harmony: Another Brush with John Updike,” … Continue reading →<\/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-1487","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\/1487","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=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}