{"id":3080,"date":"2015-08-22T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2015-08-22T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T15:06:11","slug":"updikes-former-teacher-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/08\/22\/updikes-former-teacher-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike&#8217;s former teacher dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society belatedly learned that <strong>Kathryn &#8220;Kay&#8221; Brobst Hartman<\/strong> died on May 24, 2015 in Towanda, Pa., where she lived most of her married life. She was the last surviving teacher that\u00a0John Updike had as a youth, teaching the young author-to-be reading and science at the 6th grade level. She was 99 years old. Our sympathies (and gratitude for her life) go out to her family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morning-times.com\/obituaries\/funerals\/article_3d44003b-1fbc-5d3f-81ab-af2099b2abfb.html\">Funeral announcement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/thedailyreview\/obituary.aspx?pid=174936757\">Obituary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society belatedly learned that Kathryn &#8220;Kay&#8221; Brobst Hartman died on May 24, 2015 in Towanda, Pa., where she lived most of her married life. She was the last surviving teacher that\u00a0John Updike had as a youth, teaching the young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/08\/22\/updikes-former-teacher-dies\/\">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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080","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=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}