{"id":1968,"date":"2014-04-14T22:08:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T03:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2014-04-14T22:08:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T03:08:10","slug":"flavorwire-offers-the-skeptics-guide-to-john-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/04\/14\/flavorwire-offers-the-skeptics-guide-to-john-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavorwire offers The Skeptic&#8217;s Guide to John Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <em>Flavorwire<\/em> posted an article from Jason Diamond that was obviously inspired by the release of Adam Begley&#8217;s biography, and yet it&#8217;s not a review. In <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/451022\/the-skeptics-guide-to-john-updike\/\">&#8220;The Skeptic&#8217;s Guide to John Updike,&#8221;<\/a> Diamond mistakenly credits the Boston area for Updike&#8217;s &#8220;rearing,&#8221; but offers that people who already like Updike&#8217;s work will like Begley&#8217;s &#8220;excellent new biography,&#8221; which &#8220;will give you more insight into a writer you might still be conflicted about reading.&#8221; He also advises resistant readers to try <em>The Complete Henry Bech<\/em>, <em>Hub Fan Bids Kid Adieu<\/em>, and the LOL volume of the complete short stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Flavorwire posted an article from Jason Diamond that was obviously inspired by the release of Adam Begley&#8217;s biography, and yet it&#8217;s not a review. In &#8220;The Skeptic&#8217;s Guide to John Updike,&#8221; Diamond mistakenly credits the Boston area for Updike&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/04\/14\/flavorwire-offers-the-skeptics-guide-to-john-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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","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\/1968","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=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}