{"id":2918,"date":"2015-04-30T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:45:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:45:06","slug":"blogger-contemplates-the-centaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/04\/30\/blogger-contemplates-the-centaur\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger contemplates The Centaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-8.33.32-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2919\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-8.33.32-AM-150x150.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 8.33.32 AM\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Blogger <strong>Jeffrey Keeten<\/strong>, whose interest in books goes beyond reviews, has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreykeeten.booklikes.com\/post\/1155070\/the-centaur-by-john-updike\">review<\/a> of Updike&#8217;s novel <em>The Centaur.\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;I&#8217;m not really sure why people have quit reading John Updike,&#8221; he muses (though there&#8217;s really no justification for thinking so). &#8220;I could not put down this flawed, but wonderful book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though his review is mostly plot summary, Keeten remarks, &#8220;The novel in many ways is brilliant, reflecting an author&#8217;s mind that is brimming with intelligence and convoluted thoughts, maybe the inspiration for the labyrinth of George&#8217;s own mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger Jeffrey Keeten, whose interest in books goes beyond reviews, has posted a review of Updike&#8217;s novel The Centaur.\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m not really sure why people have quit reading John Updike,&#8221; he muses (though there&#8217;s really no justification for thinking so). &#8220;I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/04\/30\/blogger-contemplates-the-centaur\/\">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":[11],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-the-centaur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","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=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}