{"id":1630,"date":"2013-08-21T15:51:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2013-08-21T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:52:18","slug":"updike-golf-photo-used-to-illustrate-a-grouchy-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/08\/21\/updike-golf-photo-used-to-illustrate-a-grouchy-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike golf photo used to illustrate a grouchy column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian posted a rather grouchy column by Colin Robinson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/aug\/16\/writers-year-off-publishing\/print\">&#8220;Writers should take a year off, and give us all a break,&#8221; <\/a>illustrated by a photo of an older John Updike in backswing, looking at the flight of his drive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What if everyone stopped scribbling for a year? Will Self could pull on his hiking boots, Martin Amis could sharpen his tennis serve, and we could catch up on our reading,&#8221; Robinson writes. Apparently the glut of established writers is made even more pressing by a statistic he quotes: \u00a0that according the <em>The New York Times<\/em>, 81 percent of Americans feel they have a book in them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian posted a rather grouchy column by Colin Robinson, &#8220;Writers should take a year off, and give us all a break,&#8221; illustrated by a photo of an older John Updike in backswing, looking at the flight of his drive. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/08\/21\/updike-golf-photo-used-to-illustrate-a-grouchy-column\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","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\/1630","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=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}