{"id":3602,"date":"2016-12-11T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T00:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2016-12-11T18:39:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T00:39:31","slug":"updike-wrote-to-oppose-john-lennon-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/12\/11\/updike-wrote-to-oppose-john-lennon-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike wrote to oppose John Lennon deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-11-at-6.38.17-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3603\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-11-at-6.38.17-PM-254x300.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-11-at-6-38-17-pm\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-11-at-6.38.17-PM-254x300.png 254w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-11-at-6.38.17-PM.png 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a>A City Pages article on music by <strong>Jay Boller<\/strong> titled &#8220;Hey Prude: How one penis-fearing Minnesotan tipped the FBI to John Lennon&#8221; tells of the reaction that started an FBI file that grew until it deportation became\u00a0a\u00a0threat for the former Beatle. Featuring himself and mate Yoko Ono naked on the\u00a0album cover for\u00a0<em>Two Virgins<\/em> (1968) was only the beginning. It was his anti-war voice that was the loudest and his involvement with experimental drug-use that gave the FBI its opening.<\/p>\n<p>However, &#8220;Minnesota&#8217;s own Bob Dylan would join dozens of rational stars\u2014including Jasper Johns, Joan Baez, and John Updike\u2014in writing letters of support for Lennon to the INS, which began deportation efforts in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>For the whole story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/music\/hey-prude-how-one-penis-fearing-minnesotan-tipped-the-fbi-to-john-lennon\/394186781\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A City Pages article on music by Jay Boller titled &#8220;Hey Prude: How one penis-fearing Minnesotan tipped the FBI to John Lennon&#8221; tells of the reaction that started an FBI file that grew until it deportation became\u00a0a\u00a0threat for the former &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/12\/11\/updike-wrote-to-oppose-john-lennon-deportation\/\">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":[53,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-in-context","category-updikes-life-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","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=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3604,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}