{"id":2311,"date":"2014-07-17T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2014-07-17T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:25:16","slug":"blogger-reviews-the-lovely-troubled-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/07\/17\/blogger-reviews-the-lovely-troubled-daughters\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger reviews The Lovely Troubled Daughters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <em>Whispering Gums<\/em>, a blog devoted to books and such, posted a review of John Updike&#8217;s short story, &#8220;The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love the complexity of this,&#8221; the blogger writes, &#8220;the fact that Updike has chosen to tell this story through decidedly subjective eyes, and yet has managed to leave the interpretation surprisingly open. It&#8217;s a story, I suspect, that can be read very differently depending on each reader&#8217;s experience and point of view, despite some givens in the text.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whisperinggums.com\/2014\/07\/17\/john-updike-the-lovely-troubled-daughters-of-our-old-crowd-review\/\">&#8220;John Updike, The lovely troubled daughters of our old crowd (Review)&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Whispering Gums, a blog devoted to books and such, posted a review of John Updike&#8217;s short story, &#8220;The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd.&#8221; &#8220;I love the complexity of this,&#8221; the blogger writes, &#8220;the fact that Updike has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/07\/17\/blogger-reviews-the-lovely-troubled-daughters\/\">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":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","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=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}