{"id":3819,"date":"2017-04-30T13:59:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T18:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2017-04-30T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T18:59:35","slug":"updike-credited-for-redux-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/04\/30\/updike-credited-for-redux-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike credited for redux revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-25-at-11.53.01-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2940\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-25-at-11.53.01-AM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Redux<\/em>. From the Latin, meaning, &#8220;to lead back.&#8221; And an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/the-top-10-words-that-died-and-were-reborn-a7695476.html\">&#8220;The Top 10 Words That Died and Were Reborn,&#8221;<\/a> written by John Rentoul and published in <em>The Independent<\/em>, credits John Updike for the revival:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Redux<\/strong>. Excellent nomination from Steve, who pointed out that it was popularised by John Updike. <em>Rabbit Redux<\/em>, 1971, was the second of his Rabbit series. Mostly used in fairly upmarket US commentary, it means brought back, revived, and dates from the late 19th century, from Latin, <em>reducere<\/em> &#8220;bring back.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article is interactive, with terms suggested by various people, and in that spirit we suggest you try using all 10 words in a sentence. You know Updike could do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redux. From the Latin, meaning, &#8220;to lead back.&#8221; And an article on &#8220;The Top 10 Words That Died and Were Reborn,&#8221; written by John Rentoul and published in The Independent, credits John Updike for the revival: &#8220;Redux. Excellent nomination from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/04\/30\/updike-credited-for-redux-revival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}