{"id":3442,"date":"2016-07-25T08:26:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2016-07-25T08:26:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:26:18","slug":"rabbit-run-lauded-for-literary-mastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/07\/25\/rabbit-run-lauded-for-literary-mastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit, Run lauded for literary mastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-25-at-8.24.48-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3443\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-25-at-8.24.48-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-25 at 8.24.48 AM\" width=\"71\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a>Brian Hancock<\/strong>, writing for the <em>Franklin Favorite<\/em>, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franklinfavorite.com\/features\/article_1d0af1a7-5d38-5b01-9e29-4c4f92246706.html\">&#8220;<em>Rabbit, Run<\/em> a lesson in literary mastery.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Rabbit, Run<\/em> is a fine display of Updike&#8217;s masterful grip on prose. Incredibly creative similes and metaphors are employed throughout the work, to the point where the novel becomes a literacy lesson in itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not just the prose where Updike succeeds, though, but through narrative disguise as well. Rabbit, who initially appears to be a lovable little character, perhaps isn&#8217;t what the reader first thought at all,&#8221; he writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Hancock, writing for the Franklin Favorite, called &#8220;Rabbit, Run a lesson in literary mastery.&#8221; &#8220;Rabbit, Run is a fine display of Updike&#8217;s masterful grip on prose. Incredibly creative similes and metaphors are employed throughout the work, to the point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/07\/25\/rabbit-run-lauded-for-literary-mastery\/\">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-3442","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\/3442","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=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}