{"id":1966,"date":"2014-04-14T21:59:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T02:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2014-04-14T21:59:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T02:59:29","slug":"chatterbox-collection-brings-top-dollar-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/04\/14\/chatterbox-collection-brings-top-dollar-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatterbox collection brings top-dollar at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/historical.ha.com\/c\/item.zx?saleNo=6108&amp;lotNo=36370\">collection of 25 Chatterboxes<\/a> that belonged to Updike pal Barry Nelson sold at auction on April 2, 2014 for a whopping $18,125. For a little perspective, an inscribed copy of Updike&#8217;s first novel, <em>The Poorhouse Fair<\/em>, is currently selling for $625, and you can also buy a signed copy of Updike&#8217;s first book, <em>The Carpentered Hen and other tame creatures,<\/em> for the same price.<\/p>\n<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=\"aligncenter 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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of 25 Chatterboxes that belonged to Updike pal Barry Nelson sold at auction on April 2, 2014 for a whopping $18,125. For a little perspective, an inscribed copy of Updike&#8217;s first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, is currently selling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/04\/14\/chatterbox-collection-brings-top-dollar-at-auction\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-corner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","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=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}