{"id":2761,"date":"2015-02-07T19:55:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T01:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2015-02-07T19:55:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T01:55:54","slug":"british-comedian-picks-updike-for-his-one-book-on-a-desert-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/02\/07\/british-comedian-picks-updike-for-his-one-book-on-a-desert-island\/","title":{"rendered":"British comedian picks Updike for his one book on a desert island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-07-at-7.51.33-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2762\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-07-at-7.51.33-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-02-07 at 7.51.33 PM\" width=\"158\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>The Daily Mail<\/em> asked British comedian <strong>David Baddiel<\/strong> (<em>The Mary Whitehouse Experience<\/em>) which book he&#8217;d take to a desert island, and he chose John Updike. Or more specifically,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Rabbit omnibus by John Updike. This is actually five books all about the same character: \u00a0<em>Rabbit, Run<\/em>; <em>Rabbit Redux<\/em>; <em>Rabbit Is Rich<\/em>; <em>Rabbit at Rest<\/em> and <em>Rabbit, Remembered<\/em>. All human life is there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The occasion for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/books\/article-2912335\/WHAT-BOOK-David-Baddiel-desert-island.html\">interview<\/a> was the publication of Baddiel&#8217;s first children&#8217;s book, <em>The Parent Agency<\/em> (HarperCollins). It&#8217;s available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Parent-Agency-David-Baddiel\/dp\/0007554494\/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1423360284&amp;sr=8-1\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Mail asked British comedian David Baddiel (The Mary Whitehouse Experience) which book he&#8217;d take to a desert island, and he chose John Updike. Or more specifically, &#8220;The Rabbit omnibus by John Updike. This is actually five books all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/02\/07\/british-comedian-picks-updike-for-his-one-book-on-a-desert-island\/\">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":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-publications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","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=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}