{"id":4008,"date":"2017-07-05T07:57:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T12:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2017-07-05T07:57:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T12:57:44","slug":"phil-jacksons-old-news-is-updikes-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/05\/phil-jacksons-old-news-is-updikes-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Jackson&#8217;s old news is Updike&#8217;s too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/200px-Phil_Jackson_3_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4009\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/200px-Phil_Jackson_3_cropped-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>James Warren<\/strong>, in a June 30, 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/2017\/joe-and-mika-fight-back\/465339\/\">column<\/a> for the Poynter website, noted that <strong>Phil Jackson <\/strong>(pictured), the &#8220;fabled pro basketball coach got canned as chief executive of the New York Knicks. It&#8217;s open season on him right now, with nary a positive word being written about him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It reminds me, however, of a 1992 <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/1992-11-29\/features\/9204180993_1_rabbit-redux-harry-rabbit-angstrom-john-updike\"><em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> piece<\/a> that I helped broker: a meeting between Jackson, then coach of the Chicago Bulls, and <strong>John Updike<\/strong>. The late <em>Tribune<\/em> writer <strong>Paul Galloway<\/strong> did a knockout job, including catching the fact that Jackson knew one Updike book better than Updike, along with Jackson having some distinct views about what were then big changes at <em>The New Yorker<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If that Updike-Jackson interview sounds familiar, it was reprinted in\u00a0<em>Conversations with John Updike<\/em> (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1994), ed. by James Plath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Warren, in a June 30, 2017 column for the Poynter website, noted that Phil Jackson (pictured), the &#8220;fabled pro basketball coach got canned as chief executive of the New York Knicks. It&#8217;s open season on him right now, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/05\/phil-jacksons-old-news-is-updikes-too\/\">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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-and-found"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","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=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}