{"id":3111,"date":"2015-09-24T10:36:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T15:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2015-09-24T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T15:36:54","slug":"john-updike-as-punch-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/09\/24\/john-updike-as-punch-line\/","title":{"rendered":"John Updike as punch line?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/09\/changeseven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3112\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/09\/changeseven.jpg\" alt=\"changeseven\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>Ever since Nicholson Baker lionized John Updike in an admirer&#8217;s confession titled <em>U and I: A True Story<\/em>, the anecdotes from Updike readers and fans have kept coming. The latest to surface is a reminiscence about one particular American Booksellers Association Convention, three speakers (Geraldine Ferraro, Richard Ford, John Updike), and one joke . . . with Updike as the punch line.<\/p>\n<p>Here is\u00a0<strong>Corey Mesler<\/strong>&#8216;s mini-essay,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/changesevenmag.com\/portfolio\/the-updike-joke-and-after\/\">&#8220;The Updike Joke and After,&#8221;<\/a> which was published today on the <em>Change Seven Magazine<\/em> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Nicholson Baker lionized John Updike in an admirer&#8217;s confession titled U and I: A True Story, the anecdotes from Updike readers and fans have kept coming. The latest to surface is a reminiscence about one particular American Booksellers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/09\/24\/john-updike-as-punch-line\/\">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-3111","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\/3111","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=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}