{"id":2370,"date":"2014-08-07T15:28:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T20:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2014-08-07T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T20:33:12","slug":"missing-memes-dont-forget-to-like-the-john-updike-society-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/08\/07\/missing-memes-dont-forget-to-like-the-john-updike-society-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing memes? Don’t forget to LIKE The John Updike Society on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every story that appears on The John Updike Society website\/blog is also posted on the Society’s Facebook page<\/a>, but don’t forget to “Like” JUS on Facebook. Otherwise you’ll\u00a0miss out on the\u00a0John Updike quote memes\u00a0posted there from time to time that are not added to this website. Why? Because Facebook is a lighter, more visually oriented medium.<\/p>\n

The top three favorites thus far? “My characters are very fond of both safety and freedom . . . and yet the two things don’t go together, quite, so they’re in a state of tension all the time.” That meme\u00a0circulated to 31,520 people.<\/p>\n

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Coming in second was “Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need to not look foolish is one of youth’s many burdens.” That one went out to 1,305 people.<\/p>\n

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Third place went to the Updike\u00a0“summer selves” meme: \u00a0“We love easily in summer, perhaps, because we love our summer selves.” That one\u00a0was seen by 802 people.<\/p>\n

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Every story that appears on The John Updike Society website\/blog is also posted on the Society’s Facebook page, but don’t forget to “Like” JUS on Facebook. Otherwise you’ll\u00a0miss out on the\u00a0John Updike quote memes\u00a0posted there from time to time that … Continue reading →<\/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":[25,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-news","category-updike-online"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","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=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}