{"id":1924,"date":"2014-03-21T21:43:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T02:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2014-03-21T21:49:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T02:49:32","slug":"updike-rich-chatterboxes-turn-up-at-heritage-auctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/03\/21\/updike-rich-chatterboxes-turn-up-at-heritage-auctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike-rich Chatterboxes turn up at Heritage Auctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2014-03-21-at-9.26.45-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1925\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-03-21 at 9.26.45 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2014-03-21-at-9.26.45-PM.png\" width=\"223\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a>A collection of 25 issues of the Shillington High School newspaper, the\u00a0<em><strong>Chatterbox<\/strong>\u2014<\/em>to which John Updike contributed both artwork and written features\u2014is being sold on April 2 by Heritage Auctions.<\/p>\n<p>Interested buyers may also <a href=\"http:\/\/historical.ha.com\/c\/item.zx?saleNo=6108&amp;lotNo=36370\">place bids online<\/a>, starting now. The minimum opening bid is $2000.\u00a0\u00a0The mimeographed issues of the <em>Chatterbox\u00a0<\/em>are from the collection of the late Barry Nelson, a classmate of Updike&#8217;s and the sports editor of the newspaper while Updike was on the staff.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 25 issues are from Updike&#8217;s junior and senior years, and include 81 contributions from him\u2014including his famous &#8220;Ode to the Seniors&#8221; poem, in which the first letter of each line collectively spelled &#8220;Seniors Stink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A full list of the publications is at the <a href=\"http:\/\/historical.ha.com\/c\/item.zx?saleNo=6108&amp;lotNo=36370\">Heritage Auctions website<\/a>. Note that a 25 percent buyer&#8217;s premium will be added to the winning bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of 25 issues of the Shillington High School newspaper, the\u00a0Chatterbox\u2014to which John Updike contributed both artwork and written features\u2014is being sold on April 2 by Heritage Auctions. Interested buyers may also place bids online, starting now. The minimum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/03\/21\/updike-rich-chatterboxes-turn-up-at-heritage-auctions\/\">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":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-corner","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","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=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}