{"id":4025,"date":"2017-07-05T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2017-07-05T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:00:12","slug":"whats-singer-tom-odell-reading-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/05\/whats-singer-tom-odell-reading-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s singer Tom Odell reading? Updike!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-8.53.53-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4026\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-8.53.53-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a>Vogue<\/em> magazine interviewed British singer-songwriter\u00a0<strong>Tom Odell<\/strong> before he embarked on a two-month European tour, and one of the questions was <em>What book are you currently reading?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Rabbit, Run<\/em> by John Updike. I read it once before when I was a lot younger; it&#8217;s about a very brilliant sports star who just sort of gets up and leaves his family. It&#8217;s very gritty, it&#8217;s somewhere between John Steinbeck and Charles Bukowski,&#8221; the 26 year old said. That, by the way, was Rabbit&#8217;s age in the first book.<\/p>\n<p>Odell&#8217;s debut studio album,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_Way_Down_(Tom_Odell_album)\">Long Way Down<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>was released in June 2013 and his second album,\u00a0<em>Wrong Crowd,\u00a0<\/em>was released in December 2016, along with the Christmas EP <em>Spending All My Christmas with You<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.co.uk\/article\/tom-odell-interview\">&#8220;Five Minutes With . . . Tom Odell&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vogue magazine interviewed British singer-songwriter\u00a0Tom Odell before he embarked on a two-month European tour, and one of the questions was What book are you currently reading? &#8220;Rabbit, Run by John Updike. I read it once before when I was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/05\/whats-singer-tom-odell-reading-updike\/\">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":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-interviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","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=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions\/4027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}