{"id":3218,"date":"2015-11-27T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2015-11-27T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T21:02:11","slug":"keillor-reads-updike-poem-on-writers-almanac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/11\/27\/keillor-reads-updike-poem-on-writers-almanac\/","title":{"rendered":"Keillor reads Updike poem on Writer’s Almanac"},"content":{"rendered":"

The featured poem for Friday, Nov. 27, 2015 on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor is Updike’s “Tools.” It’s in print format with a link\u00a0to\u00a0download\u00a0Keillor reading the poem. It’s easy to see why Keillor chose this particular poem for Black Friday, the biggest retail shopping day of the year.<\/p>\n

“Tools”\u00a0begins, “Tell me, how do the manufacturers of tools \/ turn a profit? I have used the same clawed hammer \/ for forty years. The screwdriver misted with rust \/ once slipped into my young hand, a new \/ householder’s.”<\/p>\n

The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor: \u00a0“Tools,” by John Updike<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The featured poem for Friday, Nov. 27, 2015 on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor is Updike’s “Tools.” It’s in print format with a link\u00a0to\u00a0download\u00a0Keillor reading the poem. It’s easy to see why Keillor chose this particular poem for Black … Continue reading →<\/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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-online"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","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=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}