{"id":1929,"date":"2014-03-22T22:38:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T03:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2014-03-22T22:38:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T03:38:45","slug":"blogger-contemplates-a-passage-from-self-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/03\/22\/blogger-contemplates-a-passage-from-self-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger contemplates a passage from Self-Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Friday, March 21 2014 post for <em>The Bully Pulpit<\/em> blog was titled <a href=\"http:\/\/jrbenjamin.com\/2014\/03\/21\/john-updike-on-falling-airplanes-and-his-faith-in-a-fallen-world\/\">&#8220;John Updike on Falling Airplanes and His Faith in a Fallen World,&#8221;<\/a> in which the writer thoughtfully responds to a long &#8220;magisterial&#8221; passage from Updike&#8217;s <em>Self-Consciousness: Memoirs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Updike is a writer who pulls the sublime from effortless, conversational sentences, affirming his reflection that &#8216;to give the mundane its beautiful due&#8217; was the purpose of his writing style. And man, do you feel the power of that impulse in these memoirs,&#8221; JR Benjamin writes. He considers as well a poem by Philip Larkin and concludes, &#8220;Not to put too fine a point on the issue, but I think the contemporary American Church, with its Hollywood aesthetic and prosperity gospel, has lost much of that crucial, validating seriousness&#8221; both that informed both Larkin&#8217;s and Updike&#8217;s sense of religion and church-going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friday, March 21 2014 post for The Bully Pulpit blog was titled &#8220;John Updike on Falling Airplanes and His Faith in a Fallen World,&#8221; in which the writer thoughtfully responds to a long &#8220;magisterial&#8221; passage from Updike&#8217;s Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/03\/22\/blogger-contemplates-a-passage-from-self-consciousness\/\">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-1929","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\/1929","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=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}