{"id":3558,"date":"2016-11-29T07:48:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2016-11-29T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:48:21","slug":"updike-on-the-cover-of-a-sex-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/11\/29\/updike-on-the-cover-of-a-sex-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike on the cover of a sex manual?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a category that can only be termed &#8220;random news,&#8221; John Updike and Radiohead&#8217;s Thom Yorke are both featured on the cover of an Iranian sex manual titled <em>Marital and Sexual Problems in Men<\/em>. Though the story is recent, based on a Tehran tweeter, the book itself was spotted three years ago by journalist Sobhan Hassanvand. Updike would no doubt be amused, not only by the cover but by what passes for &#8220;news&#8221; on the Internet. Updike&#8217;s pose seems to be from a promo shot from his collection of short stories,\u00a0<em>Trust Me.\u00a0<\/em>Here&#8217;s the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/books\/86999297\/thom-yorke-john-updike-are-on-the-cover-of-an-iranian-sex-manual\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-7.42.16-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3559\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-7.42.16-AM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-11-29-at-7-42-16-am\" width=\"455\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-7.42.16-AM.png 455w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-29-at-7.42.16-AM-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a category that can only be termed &#8220;random news,&#8221; John Updike and Radiohead&#8217;s Thom Yorke are both featured on the cover of an Iranian sex manual titled Marital and Sexual Problems in Men. Though the story is recent, based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/11\/29\/updike-on-the-cover-of-a-sex-manual\/\">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":[21,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-and-found","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","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=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3560,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}