{"id":4538,"date":"2018-07-08T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T14:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2018-07-08T09:48:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T14:48:33","slug":"more-updike-on-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2018\/07\/08\/more-updike-on-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"More Updike on Jeopardy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-08-at-8.29.44-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4539\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-08-at-8.29.44-AM-203x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-08-at-8.29.44-AM-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-08-at-8.29.44-AM.png 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>A recent episode of <strong><em>Jeopardy!<\/em><\/strong>, an American game show that&#8217;s been around since 1964, featured this &#8220;answer&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John Updike wrote in 1960, &#8216;Gods do not answer letters,&#8217; which referred to a ballplayer ignoring applause and not tipping his hat after a home run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the question?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who is Ted Williams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Updike wrote what many consider to be the best piece of sports writing <em>ever <\/em>after he watched the Boston Red Sox slugger make the most of his last career at-bat on September 28, 1960. &#8220;Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu&#8221; was originally published an October 1960 issue of <em>The New Yorker<\/em> and more recently as a stand-alone book from the Library of America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hub-Fans-Bid-Kid-Adieu\/dp\/1598530712\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1531057004&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=hub+fans+bid+kid+adieu\"><em>Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu<\/em> amazon link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent episode of Jeopardy!, an American game show that&#8217;s been around since 1964, featured this &#8220;answer&#8221;: &#8220;John Updike wrote in 1960, &#8216;Gods do not answer letters,&#8217; which referred to a ballplayer ignoring applause and not tipping his hat after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2018\/07\/08\/more-updike-on-jeopardy\/\">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":[70,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-in-pop-culture","category-updike-quoted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538","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=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}