{"id":2839,"date":"2015-03-17T06:51:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T11:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2015-03-17T06:51:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T11:51:05","slug":"book-nerd-offers-five-interesting-updike-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/03\/17\/book-nerd-offers-five-interesting-updike-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Book nerd offers five interesting Updike facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-17-at-6.47.28-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2841\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-17-at-6.47.28-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-03-17 at 6.47.28 AM\" width=\"76\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>Brian Hoey<\/strong>, a self-described &#8220;book nerd,&#8221; yesterday uploaded a piece for www.BooksTellYouWhy.com titled <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bookstellyouwhy.com\/sex-trash-and-eminem-five-interesting-facts-about-john-updike\">&#8220;Sex, Trash, and Eminem: Five Interesting Facts About John Updike,&#8221;<\/a> one of which\u2014that he couldn&#8217;t write sex scenes\u2014is debatable.<\/p>\n<p>But one &#8220;fact&#8221; may be new to the larger community of Updike readers and scholars:<\/p>\n<p>4) His influence extends beyond Literature and into Rap Music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Or, at least, Eminem has read the firRabbitIsRichst installment in Updike\u2019s \u2018Rabbit\u2019 tetrology, <em>Rabbit, Run<\/em> (1960). The noted rapper was, apparently, so moved as to nickname the protagonist in his 2002 film <em>8 Mile<\/em> \u2018Rabbit,\u2019 laying claim to a revitalization of the white-American-everyman archetype that Updike so forcefully established five decades ago. The film\u2019s soundtrack, too, referenced Updike\u2019s contribution to the canon with a track entitled \u2018Rabbit Run,\u2019 for those who might have missed the first reference.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Hoey, a self-described &#8220;book nerd,&#8221; yesterday uploaded a piece for www.BooksTellYouWhy.com titled &#8220;Sex, Trash, and Eminem: Five Interesting Facts About John Updike,&#8221; one of which\u2014that he couldn&#8217;t write sex scenes\u2014is debatable. But one &#8220;fact&#8221; may be new to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/03\/17\/book-nerd-offers-five-interesting-updike-facts\/\">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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","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=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2842,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}