{"id":1583,"date":"2013-07-16T15:47:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2013-07-16T15:47:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T20:47:11","slug":"updike-house-makes-literary-pilgrims-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/07\/16\/updike-house-makes-literary-pilgrims-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike house makes literary pilgrims list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-16-at-3.31.46-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1584\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-07-16 at 3.31.46 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-16-at-3.31.46-PM.png\" width=\"333\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-16-at-3.31.46-PM.png 333w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-16-at-3.31.46-PM-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-16-at-3.31.46-PM-312x300.png 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re still considering bids for the exterior repairs and painting, and Habitat volunteers have only just begun tearing out non-period carpeting and such, but already The John Updike Childhood Home is on people&#8217;s radar.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\">Flavorwire<\/a> website Jason Diamond posted a fun story with photos, <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/403319\/50-places-every-literary-fan-should-visit\/view-all\">&#8220;50 Places Every Literary Fan Should Visit,&#8221;<\/a> which included the Updike house. It should inspire quite a few pilgrimages, both to Shillington and elsewhere. There&#8217;s lots of information here, too. I for one did not realize that Tennessee Williams lived in the campus windmill at SUNY-Stony Brook Southampton campus.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured is The Algonquin Hotel, which Updike visited on a number of occasions, as evidenced by the previous post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re still considering bids for the exterior repairs and painting, and Habitat volunteers have only just begun tearing out non-period carpeting and such, but already The John Updike Childhood Home is on people&#8217;s radar. On the Flavorwire website Jason Diamond &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/07\/16\/updike-house-makes-literary-pilgrims-list\/\">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":[6,19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-the-john-updike-childhood-home","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","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=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}