{"id":1671,"date":"2013-10-18T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2013-10-18T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:10:46","slug":"brain-pickings-compiles-quotes-on-writing-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/10\/18\/brain-pickings-compiles-quotes-on-writing-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Pickings compiles quotes &#8220;on Writing and Death&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/10\/updike_selfconsciousness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1672\" alt=\"updike_selfconsciousness\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/10\/updike_selfconsciousness.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/10\/updike_selfconsciousness.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/10\/updike_selfconsciousness-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>Maria Popova has compiled a number of quotes for an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/10\/john-updike-on-writing-and-death\/\">&#8220;John Updike on Writing and Death,&#8221;<\/a> which was published online at <em>Brain Pickings,\u00a0<\/em>much of it drawn from Updike&#8217;s memoir,\u00a0<em>Self-Consciousness<\/em>. There are some interesting juxtapositions and conclusions here\u2014like for Updike, &#8220;work\u2014especially a writer&#8217;s work\u2014serves the same purpose as religion (which, as Mark Twain famously grumbled, is chiefly an anchor of human ego.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Popova has compiled a number of quotes for an article on &#8220;John Updike on Writing and Death,&#8221; which was published online at Brain Pickings,\u00a0much of it drawn from Updike&#8217;s memoir,\u00a0Self-Consciousness. There are some interesting juxtapositions and conclusions here\u2014like for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/10\/18\/brain-pickings-compiles-quotes-on-writing-and-death\/\">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-1671","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\/1671","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=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}