{"id":2110,"date":"2014-05-21T16:23:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T21:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2014-05-21T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T21:23:19","slug":"head-to-crane-beach-for-a-chance-to-find-michael-updike-sand-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/05\/21\/head-to-crane-beach-for-a-chance-to-find-michael-updike-sand-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Head to Crane Beach for a chance to find Michael Updike &#8220;sand dollars&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-21-at-4.15.02-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2111\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-21-at-4.15.02-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-05-21 at 4.15.02 PM\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Starting\u00a0Memorial Day 2014 and continuing through the summer, 50 silver-and-blue sand dollars designed by sculptor Michael Updike will be strewn across Ipswich&#8217;s Crane Beach, where Michael&#8217;s novelist father used to enjoy spending time. It&#8217;s a promotion for the local chamber of commerce, and the sand dollars are meant to be redeemed for prizes by the lucky finders. But there are more than a few members of The John Updike Society who would think one of those sand dollars treasure enough, and display it among their other Updike collectibles.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the story by Ethan Forman that appeared in the <em>Salem News<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemnews.com\/business\/x2117406881\/Dotted-with-treasure\">&#8220;Dotted with treasure; Sand dollars on Crane Beach make beach-goers, businesses winners.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting\u00a0Memorial Day 2014 and continuing through the summer, 50 silver-and-blue sand dollars designed by sculptor Michael Updike will be strewn across Ipswich&#8217;s Crane Beach, where Michael&#8217;s novelist father used to enjoy spending time. It&#8217;s a promotion for the local chamber &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/05\/21\/head-to-crane-beach-for-a-chance-to-find-michael-updike-sand-dollars\/\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","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=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}