{"id":3253,"date":"2016-01-25T22:04:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T04:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2016-02-06T07:52:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T13:52:11","slug":"globe-columnist-ponders-updike-and-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/01\/25\/globe-columnist-ponders-updike-and-eternity\/","title":{"rendered":"Globe columnist ponders Updike and eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Jan. 25, 2016, <em>Boston Globe<\/em> Columnist <strong>Alex Beam<\/strong> considered Updike&#8217;s last poem, &#8220;Fine Point,&#8221; a meditation on the 23rd Psalm and interviewed Martha and David Updike to ask them about John&#8217;s belief in God and the hereafter.<\/p>\n<p>According to Martha, in hospice care &#8220;he always had the Book of Common Prayer on our bed\u2014he knew it very well.&#8221; She added, &#8220;John always believed that there was evidence of God&#8217;s work in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David, meanwhile, was quoted as saying, &#8220;I certainly think he wanted to believe, have complete faith, but there remained a seed of doubt, or fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2016\/01\/25\/updike-and-eternity\/K4iPEbN4xRfPHzs2tpXt3L\/story.html?event=event12\">whole column<\/a>\u00a0and a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wgbh.org\/2016\/01\/28\/local-news\/passion-john-updike\">spin-off story<\/a> on WBGH News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Jan. 25, 2016, Boston Globe Columnist Alex Beam considered Updike&#8217;s last poem, &#8220;Fine Point,&#8221; a meditation on the 23rd Psalm and interviewed Martha and David Updike to ask them about John&#8217;s belief in God and the hereafter. According to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/01\/25\/globe-columnist-ponders-updike-and-eternity\/\">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-3253","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\/3253","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=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}