{"id":4201,"date":"2017-09-16T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2017-09-16T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T16:15:53","slug":"dictionary-updike-feign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/09\/16\/dictionary-updike-feign\/","title":{"rendered":"Dictionary Updike: Feign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-16-at-10.12.00-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4202\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-16-at-10.12.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a>Laugh-In<\/em> used to punningly ask viewers to look something up in their Funk &amp; Wagnall&#8217;s, but in an example of Updike turning up in the most unlikely places the online Merriam-Webster Dictionary lists a sentence from <em>Trust Me<\/em> (1987) as an example of the usage of &#8220;feign&#8221; in a sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows how many more entries we might find examples from an American writer with an astoundingly vast vocabulary?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-16-at-10.12.40-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4203\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-16-at-10.12.40-AM-300x190.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-16-at-10.12.40-AM-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-16-at-10.12.40-AM-473x300.png 473w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-16-at-10.12.40-AM.png 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laugh-In used to punningly ask viewers to look something up in their Funk &amp; Wagnall&#8217;s, but in an example of Updike turning up in the most unlikely places the online Merriam-Webster Dictionary lists a sentence from Trust Me (1987) as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/09\/16\/dictionary-updike-feign\/\">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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-quoted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","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=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}