{"id":4813,"date":"2019-07-04T12:25:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T17:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2019-07-04T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T17:25:51","slug":"updike-recommended-to-readers-coping-with-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/07\/04\/updike-recommended-to-readers-coping-with-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike recommended to readers coping with aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/sub-updike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3574\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/sub-updike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>Novelist <strong>Deborah Moggach<\/strong> was asked by a Guardian reader to recommend books that could help her cope with the changes of body and mind that come from aging. And in response posted June 29, 2019, Moggach writes,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plenty of novelists have reflected on this as they themselves grow old. Philip Roth and John Updike spring to mind, and in fact I&#8217;d recommend Updike&#8217;s Rabbit series, taking us, as it does, through a man&#8217;s life into his last years (though it&#8217;s rather a shock to find the hero banging on about being ancient when he&#8217;s only 65).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/jun\/29\/book-clinic-authors-come-to-terms-with-ageing\">Read more of her recommendations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist Deborah Moggach was asked by a Guardian reader to recommend books that could help her cope with the changes of body and mind that come from aging. And in response posted June 29, 2019, Moggach writes, &#8220;Plenty of novelists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/07\/04\/updike-recommended-to-readers-coping-with-aging\/\">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":[32,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","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=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4814,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions\/4814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}