{"id":1810,"date":"2014-01-16T18:10:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2014-01-16T18:10:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:10:30","slug":"blogger-discovers-reviews-hugging-the-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/01\/16\/blogger-discovers-reviews-hugging-the-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger discovers, reviews HUGGING THE SHORE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/01\/269332.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1811\" alt=\"269332\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/01\/269332.jpg\" width=\"98\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>For Dorothy Borders, who writes &#8220;The Nature of Things&#8221; blog, John Updike was &#8220;a master wordsmith.&#8221; In <a href=\"http:\/\/birdwoman-thenatureofthings.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/hugging-shore-by-john-updike-review.html\">&#8220;<em>Hugging the Shore<\/em> by John Updike: A review&#8221;<\/a> of Updike&#8217;s 1983 collection of essays and criticism, she notes,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He could string words together with the best of them, and it is a pleasure to read his smooth and flowing sentences, even when those sentences were written on a subject that didn&#8217;t necessarily interest me, like golf. Just to view his writerly craftsmanship was an instruction to the art of writing. I expect I will continue to dip into this book for months to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Dorothy Borders, who writes &#8220;The Nature of Things&#8221; blog, John Updike was &#8220;a master wordsmith.&#8221; In &#8220;Hugging the Shore by John Updike: A review&#8221; of Updike&#8217;s 1983 collection of essays and criticism, she notes, &#8220;He could string words together &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/01\/16\/blogger-discovers-reviews-hugging-the-shore\/\">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":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","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=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}