{"id":3163,"date":"2015-11-07T09:35:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T15:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2015-11-07T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T15:35:46","slug":"milwaukee-journalist-moves-on-to-updikes-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/11\/07\/milwaukee-journalist-moves-on-to-updikes-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee journalist moves on to Updike&#8217;s poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/11\/recreading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3164\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/11\/recreading.jpg\" alt=\"recreading\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Jim Higgins<\/strong>, of the Milwaukee <em>Journal Sentinel<\/em>, has been reading his way through the two-volume Library of America <em>Collected Stories<\/em>, but decided to take a detour this week and read and respond to the recently published volume of Updike&#8217;s <em>Selected Poems<\/em>. This post he reads and briefly comments on &#8220;Ex-Basketball Player,&#8221; &#8220;Seven Stanzas at Easter,&#8221; and &#8220;Fever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/blogs\/entertainment\/339820861.html\">&#8220;Reading John Updike: &#8216;Selected Poems'&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Higgins, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has been reading his way through the two-volume Library of America Collected Stories, but decided to take a detour this week and read and respond to the recently published volume of Updike&#8217;s Selected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/11\/07\/milwaukee-journalist-moves-on-to-updikes-poetry\/\">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":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-updike-online"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","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=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}