{"id":1527,"date":"2013-06-01T07:22:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T12:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2013-06-01T07:23:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T12:23:57","slug":"updike-turns-up-in-a-review-of-the-movie-copperhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/06\/01\/updike-turns-up-in-a-review-of-the-movie-copperhead\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike turns up in a review of the movie Copperhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/06\/may-june-issuethumb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1528\" alt=\"may-june-issuethumb\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/06\/may-june-issuethumb.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>In a May 31 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/for-president-buchanan\/\">column\/review<\/a> published in <em>The American Conservative<\/em>, Bill Kauffman uses Updike&#8217;s <em>Buchanan Dying\u2014<\/em>&#8220;Updike&#8217;s imaginatively empathetic play about the despised 15th president&#8221;\u2014in lengthy comparison to make a point about the movie <em>Copperhead<\/em>, a Civil War drama that opens in theaters on June 28, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a disparaging quote from Henry James about the historical novel, Kauffman concludes that both the new movie and Updike&#8217;s old, only play refute James&#8217; assertion that &#8220;<em>the<\/em> real thing is almost impossible to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a May 31 column\/review published in The American Conservative, Bill Kauffman uses Updike&#8217;s Buchanan Dying\u2014&#8220;Updike&#8217;s imaginatively empathetic play about the despised 15th president&#8221;\u2014in lengthy comparison to make a point about the movie Copperhead, a Civil War drama that opens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/06\/01\/updike-turns-up-in-a-review-of-the-movie-copperhead\/\">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":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","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=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}