{"id":1602,"date":"2013-07-21T07:23:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T12:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2013-07-21T07:27:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T12:27:30","slug":"updikes-birth-city-is-now-americas-poorest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/07\/21\/updikes-birth-city-is-now-americas-poorest\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike&#8217;s birth city is now America&#8217;s poorest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-21-at-7.18.23-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1603\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-07-21 at 7.18.23 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-21-at-7.18.23-AM.png\" width=\"261\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a>According to an NPR series on &#8220;Poverty in America: The Struggle to Get Ahead,&#8221; Reading, Pa. edged out Flint, Mich. as the nation&#8217;s poorest city.<\/p>\n<p>Updike was born in the Reading hospital and wrote about the city in his Rabbit tetralogy, calling it Brewer.<\/p>\n<p>The Society returns to Reading in October 2014 for the Third Biennial John Updike Society Conference at Alvernia University.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/07\/10\/156387172\/poverty-in-the-u-s-by-the-numbers\">link to the full article<\/a>. Thanks to member Brian Duffy for calling it to our attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an NPR series on &#8220;Poverty in America: The Struggle to Get Ahead,&#8221; Reading, Pa. edged out Flint, Mich. as the nation&#8217;s poorest city. Updike was born in the Reading hospital and wrote about the city in his Rabbit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/07\/21\/updikes-birth-city-is-now-americas-poorest\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","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=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}