{"id":3098,"date":"2015-09-22T08:25:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2015-09-22T08:25:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T13:25:51","slug":"updike-makes-another-esquire-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/09\/22\/updike-makes-another-esquire-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike makes another Esquire list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Esquire<\/em><\/strong> keeps cranking out the lists, and Updike keeps making them.<\/p>\n<p>This time it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/a38112\/fiction-1015\/\">&#8220;49 Great Lines from Classic Esquire Short Stories&#8221;<\/a>\u2014though how &#8220;great&#8221; some of the lines are is highly debatable.<\/p>\n<p>Updike&#8217;s line, at least, holds its own:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There wasn&#8217;t that tireless, irksome, bright-eyed hope women kept fluttering at you.&#8221; \u2014John Updike, &#8220;The Rumor,&#8221; June 1991<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/books\/a5534\/john-updike-short-story-0691\/\">complete short story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esquire keeps cranking out the lists, and Updike keeps making them. This time it&#8217;s &#8220;49 Great Lines from Classic Esquire Short Stories&#8221;\u2014though how &#8220;great&#8221; some of the lines are is highly debatable. Updike&#8217;s line, at least, holds its own: &#8220;There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/09\/22\/updike-makes-another-esquire-list\/\">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":[32,23,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists","category-updike-online","category-updike-quoted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","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=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}