{"id":3332,"date":"2016-03-20T18:36:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T23:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2016-03-20T18:36:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T23:36:26","slug":"reporter-cites-updike-member-spots-flub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/03\/20\/reporter-cites-updike-member-spots-flub\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter cites Updike, member spots flub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Buffalo News<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city-region\/olaf-fub\/reporters-notebook-20160317\">&#8220;Reporters&#8217; Notebook&#8221; for March 17, 2016<\/a>, posted by Olaf Fub, \u00a0quoted John Updike:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A thought for this drizzly week from novelist John Updike, born on this date in 1932, &#8216;Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Updike bibliographer sent an email saying the quote, which is from &#8220;A Soft Spring Night in Shillington,&#8221; should read, &#8220;Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth&#8221;; but we expect to hear shortly from Updike&#8217;s biographer as well, since Updike was not born on March 17, but rather on the 18th.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo News\u00a0&#8220;Reporters&#8217; Notebook&#8221; for March 17, 2016, posted by Olaf Fub, \u00a0quoted John Updike: &#8220;A thought for this drizzly week from novelist John Updike, born on this date in 1932, &#8216;Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/03\/20\/reporter-cites-updike-member-spots-flub\/\">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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-quoted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","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=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}