{"id":2951,"date":"2015-05-29T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2015-05-29T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T13:51:08","slug":"mass-artist-pays-poetic-tribute-to-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/05\/29\/mass-artist-pays-poetic-tribute-to-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass. artist pays poetic tribute to Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael Updike<\/strong> writes, &#8220;I received a cold call from an admirer of my father&#8217;s tonight. She had hoped to read this poem to my father but his demise put an end to that. So reading it to me was the bridesmaid&#8217;s option.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/mathildeduffy-artist.com\">Mathilde Duffy<\/a> is an artist who works and teaches\u00a0art classes in the greater Boston area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/05\/Unknown-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2952\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/05\/Unknown-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Unknown-1\" width=\"479\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/05\/Unknown-1.jpeg 479w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/05\/Unknown-1-159x300.jpeg 159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Updike writes, &#8220;I received a cold call from an admirer of my father&#8217;s tonight. She had hoped to read this poem to my father but his demise put an end to that. So reading it to me was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/05\/29\/mass-artist-pays-poetic-tribute-to-updike\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","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=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}