{"id":2782,"date":"2015-02-22T14:33:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T20:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2015-02-22T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T20:33:01","slug":"paul-moran-decides-to-sell-the-other-john-updike-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/02\/22\/paul-moran-decides-to-sell-the-other-john-updike-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Moran decides to sell The Other John Updike Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-22-at-2.28.47-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2783\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-22-at-2.28.47-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-02-22 at 2.28.47 PM\" width=\"201\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a>At one time\u00a0<strong>Paul Moran<\/strong> said he wasn&#8217;t interested in the money, but just wanted to find a good home for the Updike materials he famously scrounged from the author&#8217;s curbside in Beverly Farms.<\/p>\n<p>That time has apparently passed. Now he&#8217;s wanting $250,000 for the contents of all the trash bags he hauled away, with the blog he used to showcase the items\u2014<em>The Other John Updike Archive<\/em>\u2014thrown in. Moran says that bids will be accepted until 5 p.m. on March 31, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been nice to have those materials for The John Updike Childhood Home at 117 Philadelphia Avenue, but $250,000 is\u00a0an insane amount of money . . . more than the Society paid for the house itself.<\/p>\n<p>Still,\u00a0if there&#8217;s an extremely wealthy person out there who has enough disposable income to spend it on disposed-of Updike items, the Society, a 501 c 3 non-profit, would be happy to be the beneficiary!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/johnupdikearchive.com\/the-john-updike-trash-collection-goes-up-for-sale\/\">link<\/a> to the post announcing the sale, with detailed visuals of what we may never see again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one time\u00a0Paul Moran said he wasn&#8217;t interested in the money, but just wanted to find a good home for the Updike materials he famously scrounged from the author&#8217;s curbside in Beverly Farms. That time has apparently passed. Now he&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/02\/22\/paul-moran-decides-to-sell-the-other-john-updike-archive\/\">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":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-corner","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","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=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}