{"id":2417,"date":"2014-08-26T20:43:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2014-08-26T20:43:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:43:48","slug":"updike-scholar-contemplates-life-after-amherst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/08\/26\/updike-scholar-contemplates-life-after-amherst\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike scholar contemplates Life After Amherst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-26-at-8.45.22-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2418\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-26-at-8.45.22-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-08-26 at 8.45.22 PM\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>William Pritchard<\/strong>, known in Updike circles for his book, <em>Updike: America&#8217;s Man of Letters<\/em> (Steerforth Press, 2000), graduated from Amherst College in 1953 and, now retired as a Professor Emeritus after teaching for the same institution for many decades, has written a piece for <em>Amherst Magazine<\/em> titled &#8220;Life After Amherst?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In it, he talks about his career and a piece he thought about writing, though he admits, &#8220;When I revealed to my spouse that I was going to write something vaguely on the subject of life after Amherst, she scoffed, declaring that there was, for me, no life after Amherst.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/aboutamherst\/magazine\/issues\/2014-summer\/life-after-amherst\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Pritchard, known in Updike circles for his book, Updike: America&#8217;s Man of Letters (Steerforth Press, 2000), graduated from Amherst College in 1953 and, now retired as a Professor Emeritus after teaching for the same institution for many decades, has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/08\/26\/updike-scholar-contemplates-life-after-amherst\/\">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-2417","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\/2417","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=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}