{"id":1569,"date":"2013-07-14T13:55:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T18:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2013-07-14T14:01:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T19:01:57","slug":"garrison-keillor-reads-updikes-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/07\/14\/garrison-keillor-reads-updikes-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrison Keillor reads Updike&#8217;s &#8220;Baseball&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/07\/Citi-Field.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1570\" alt=\"Citi Field\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/07\/Citi-Field.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/index.php?date=2013\/06\/25\">The Writer&#8217;s Almanac<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/index.php?date=2013\/06\/25\"> for Tuesday, June 25, 2013<\/a>, featured Updike&#8217;s poem &#8220;Baseball,&#8221; which seems even more appropriate to share as Tuesday&#8217;s All-Star Game \u00a0draws nearer.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it&#8217;s tempting to contact starting NL first basemen Joey Votto to ask him how accurate Updike&#8217;s second-stanza simile seems\u2014if he was ever &#8220;scared \/ of the shortstop&#8217;s wild throw \/ that stretches you out like a gutted deer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Baseball&#8221; appeared in <em>Endpoint<\/em>, confirming Updike&#8217;s sustained interest in the Great American Pastime throughout his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Writer&#8217;s Almanac for Tuesday, June 25, 2013, featured Updike&#8217;s poem &#8220;Baseball,&#8221; which seems even more appropriate to share as Tuesday&#8217;s All-Star Game \u00a0draws nearer. In fact, it&#8217;s tempting to contact starting NL first basemen Joey Votto to ask him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/07\/14\/garrison-keillor-reads-updikes-baseball\/\">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":[20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasts","category-publications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","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=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}