{"id":2691,"date":"2014-12-27T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T16:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2014-12-27T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T16:27:30","slug":"updike-on-christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/12\/27\/updike-on-christmas-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike on Christmas Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New Yorker<\/em> recently posted an Updike essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/1997\/12\/22\/christmas-cards\">&#8220;Christmas Cards&#8221;<\/a> that first appeared in a\u00a0December 22, 1997 issue. In it, Updike recalls Christmas at the Philadelphia Avenue house, where the &#8220;taste of Christmas in the little Pennsylvania town of Shillington\u2014one of the more penetrating in my life&#8217;s bolted meals\u2014was compounded of chocolate-flavored piety, as sweetly standardized as Hershey&#8217;s Kisses, and a tart, refreshed awareness of where one stood on the socioeconomic scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker recently posted an Updike essay on &#8220;Christmas Cards&#8221; that first appeared in a\u00a0December 22, 1997 issue. In it, Updike recalls Christmas at the Philadelphia Avenue house, where the &#8220;taste of Christmas in the little Pennsylvania town of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/12\/27\/updike-on-christmas-cards\/\">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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-online"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","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=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}