{"id":1917,"date":"2014-03-18T18:25:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T23:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2014-03-18T18:26:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T23:26:21","slug":"in-case-you-missed-it-adam-gopniks-essay-on-updikes-long-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/03\/18\/in-case-you-missed-it-adam-gopniks-essay-on-updikes-long-game\/","title":{"rendered":"In case you missed it: Adam Gopnik&#8217;s essay &#8220;On Updike&#8217;s Long Game&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Gopnik wrote a feature titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/humanities\/2008\/mayjune\/feature\/fans-notes\">&#8220;A Fan&#8217;s Notes on Updike&#8217;s Long Game&#8221;<\/a> for <em>Humanties<\/em> magazine, Vol. 29 No. 3 (May\/June 2008) that finds him concluding that &#8220;if the persistent journalist in him is one of the things that has kept his novels alive, it is the satirist and humorist in him that have kept his sentences aloft,&#8221; further speculating, &#8220;Updike&#8217;s affinity for painting and poetry\u2014the still felt desire to have been a painter or poet\u2014is perhaps the secret fuel that keeps the prose shining and still in motion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Gopnik wrote a feature titled &#8220;A Fan&#8217;s Notes on Updike&#8217;s Long Game&#8221; for Humanties magazine, Vol. 29 No. 3 (May\/June 2008) that finds him concluding that &#8220;if the persistent journalist in him is one of the things that has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/03\/18\/in-case-you-missed-it-adam-gopniks-essay-on-updikes-long-game\/\">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":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-publications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","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=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}