{"id":4784,"date":"2019-05-29T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2019-05-30T21:37:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T02:37:50","slug":"john-updike-lovers-urged-to-shop-amazon-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/05\/29\/john-updike-lovers-urged-to-shop-amazon-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"John Updike lovers urged to shop Amazon Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t add so much as a penny to your Amazon order total, and the website is identical. But if you bookmark <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\">https:\/\/smile.amazon.com<\/a> and shop there instead of amazon.com, you can choose a charity to benefit . . . and we hope you&#8217;ll decide to support John Updike Society and our continued efforts to create a world-class literary site and museum in The John Updike Childhood Home in Shillington, Pa. This is not a gimmick, and you do not end up on someone&#8217;s mailing list. It&#8217;s the same shopping experience as shopping through the regular Amazon site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far the JUS society president (&#8220;you&#8221; below) has accounted for more than half of the donations that were direct-deposited into the society&#8217;s bank account from Amazon Smile. Come on Updike fans and book lovers, we can do better!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"708\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-3.29.37-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-3.29.37-PM.png 708w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-3.29.37-PM-334x300.png 334w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-29-at-3.29.37-PM-300x269.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t add so much as a penny to your Amazon order total, and the website is identical. But if you bookmark https:\/\/smile.amazon.com and shop there instead of amazon.com, you can choose a charity to benefit . . . and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/05\/29\/john-updike-lovers-urged-to-shop-amazon-smile\/\">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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","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=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4786,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions\/4786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}