{"id":1952,"date":"2014-04-10T08:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T13:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2014-04-10T08:09:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T13:09:35","slug":"biographile-asks-begley-about-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/04\/10\/biographile-asks-begley-about-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Biographile asks Begley about Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Biographile<\/em> posted an interview with Updike biographer Adam Begley yesterday in which they asked about Updike&#8217;s mother, the importance of religion to his fiction, and the challenges Begley faced in writing a biography of a man whose career seemed, at least to the outside world, smooth.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the story:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biographile.com\/alive-to-the-world-of-literature-biographer-adam-begley-on-john-updike\/30553\/\">&#8220;Alive to the World of Literature: Biographer Adam Begley on John Updike&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biographile posted an interview with Updike biographer Adam Begley yesterday in which they asked about Updike&#8217;s mother, the importance of religion to his fiction, and the challenges Begley faced in writing a biography of a man whose career seemed, at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/04\/10\/biographile-asks-begley-about-updike\/\">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":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-interviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","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=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}