{"id":3149,"date":"2015-10-27T10:45:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T15:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2015-11-07T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T14:55:07","slug":"society-gets-its-first-u-s-based-lifetime-benefactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/10\/27\/society-gets-its-first-u-s-based-lifetime-benefactor\/","title":{"rendered":"Society gets its first U.S.-based lifetime benefactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/10\/Zimmerman1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3160\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/10\/Zimmerman1-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Zimmerman\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>John Updike Society member\u00a0<strong>Lang Zimmerman<\/strong>,\u00a0whom society members may have met at\u00a0the most recent conference in Reading, Pa., has become the first U.S.-based lifetime benefactor.\u00a0Zimmerman is vice president of Yelcot, a family-owned communications company based in Mountain Home, Arkansas, and is also commissioner for the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. In a note he added that his donation was written, appropriately,\u00a0using a\u00a0pen made from Updike&#8217;s dogwood tree.<\/p>\n<p>The new dues structure announced in August included options to become a lifetime member ($500) and a lifetime benefactor ($1000). So far no one has chosen to become a lifetime member, but Zimmerman now joins Takashi Nakatani as the society&#8217;s lifetime benefactors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Updike Society member\u00a0Lang Zimmerman,\u00a0whom society members may have met at\u00a0the most recent conference in Reading, Pa., has become the first U.S.-based lifetime benefactor.\u00a0Zimmerman is vice president of Yelcot, a family-owned communications company based in Mountain Home, Arkansas, and is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/10\/27\/society-gets-its-first-u-s-based-lifetime-benefactor\/\">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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","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=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/3162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}