{"id":2923,"date":"2015-05-01T22:41:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T03:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2015-05-01T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T03:41:07","slug":"updike-is-still-on-the-onions-satirical-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/05\/01\/updike-is-still-on-the-onions-satirical-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike is still on The Onion&#8217;s satirical radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a fellow lampooner, John Updike would no doubt appreciate his inclusion in <strong><em>The Onion<\/em><\/strong>&#8216;s tongue-in-cheek\u00a0story of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/top-prom-trends-2015-50325\">&#8220;Top Prom Trends For 2015.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here are this year&#8217;s most popular prom trends:<\/p>\n<p>Live streaming feed for students who couldn\u2019t get date<br \/>\nMoment of silence to honor our fallen heroes overseas<br \/>\n<em>The Centaur<\/em> replacing <em>Rabbit Redux<\/em> as this year\u2019s most popular John Updike\u2013based prom theme<br \/>\nAdult chaperones given two minutes at start of dance to explain why exactly they chose to spend night off doing this<br \/>\nCash bar for dates 21 and over<br \/>\nViennese Waltz continues to supplant American-style tango as preeminent dance<br \/>\nKing and queen required to break at least five social boundaries in order to be crowned<br \/>\nMore DJs ending night with special father-son dance<br \/>\nAfter-party held right in lobby of hospital ER<br \/>\nMany students are following up their prom experience with unprotected intercourse&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a fellow lampooner, John Updike would no doubt appreciate his inclusion in The Onion&#8216;s tongue-in-cheek\u00a0story of the &#8220;Top Prom Trends For 2015.&#8221; &#8220;Here are this year&#8217;s most popular prom trends: Live streaming feed for students who couldn\u2019t get date &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/05\/01\/updike-is-still-on-the-onions-satirical-radar\/\">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":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","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=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}