{"id":2568,"date":"2014-10-18T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T21:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2014-10-18T16:10:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T21:10:42","slug":"the-thinking-housewife-thinks-about-updike-and-e-michael-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/10\/18\/the-thinking-housewife-thinks-about-updike-and-e-michael-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thinking Housewife thinks about Updike and E. Michael Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On her blog, <em>The Thinking Housewife<\/em>, Laura Wood published an entry titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp\/2014\/10\/e-michael-jones-on-john-updike\/\">&#8220;E. Michael Jones on John Updike&#8221;<\/a> that considers Updike in the context of what Christopher Lasch called &#8220;the Culture of Narcissism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given the recent essay on the Christian roommates in The John Updike Review, what she and her responders have to say might be of interest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to Jones, &#8216;Literature used to be a WASP avocation. It is now a Jewish business, and John Updike, because of his narcissism and his moral defections, enabled the transition from the former to the latter state.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On her blog, The Thinking Housewife, Laura Wood published an entry titled &#8220;E. Michael Jones on John Updike&#8221; that considers Updike in the context of what Christopher Lasch called &#8220;the Culture of Narcissism.&#8221; Given the recent essay on the Christian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/10\/18\/the-thinking-housewife-thinks-about-updike-and-e-michael-jones\/\">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-2568","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\/2568","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=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}