{"id":3049,"date":"2015-07-31T07:34:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2015-07-31T07:34:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:34:04","slug":"blogger-thinks-rhinoceros-not-rabbit-will-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/07\/31\/blogger-thinks-rhinoceros-not-rabbit-will-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger thinks Rhinoceros, not Rabbit, will survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-31-at-7.33.00-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3050\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-31-at-7.33.00-AM-300x187.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-31 at 7.33.00 AM\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-31-at-7.33.00-AM-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-31-at-7.33.00-AM-482x300.png 482w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-31-at-7.33.00-AM.png 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Blogger <strong>Patrick Kurp<\/strong>, of Houston, posted an entry today titled <a href=\"http:\/\/evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/as-big-perhaps-as-four-oxen.html\">&#8220;As Big, Perhaps, as Four Oxen&#8221;<\/a> on his site, <em>Anecdotal Evidence: A blog about the intersection of books and life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Handicapping literary reputations is a mug&#8217;s game,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;but if I were calculating John Updike&#8217;s odds, I&#8217;d bet on a handful of his stories, reviews and poems\u2014especially the poems. Leave the novels alone, as readers and critics seldom did during his lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kurp calls Updike&#8217;s &#8220;a poetry of wit&#8221; and cites &#8220;The Menagerie at Versailles in 1775&#8221; as a prime example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger Patrick Kurp, of Houston, posted an entry today titled &#8220;As Big, Perhaps, as Four Oxen&#8221; on his site, Anecdotal Evidence: A blog about the intersection of books and life. &#8220;Handicapping literary reputations is a mug&#8217;s game,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/07\/31\/blogger-thinks-rhinoceros-not-rabbit-will-survive\/\">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-3049","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\/3049","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=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}