{"id":5046,"date":"2020-12-31T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5046"},"modified":"2020-12-31T13:32:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T19:32:28","slug":"musician-rufus-wainwright-fights-covid-with-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2020\/12\/31\/musician-rufus-wainwright-fights-covid-with-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician Rufus Wainwright fights Covid with Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-31-at-12.37.58-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5047\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-31-at-12.37.58-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a>In the recent <em>Rolling Stone <\/em>feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rufus-wainwright-2020-survey-1097145\/\">&#8220;Year in Review: So, How Was Your 2020, Rufus Wainwright?&#8221;<\/a> the musician responded to a series of questions, including whom he&#8217;d want to quarantine with (&#8220;Carrie Fisher\u2014mainly because I miss her so much&#8221;), an old album he turned to for comfort (Randy Newman&#8217;s <em>Trouble in Paradise<\/em>), and his favorite TV show to stream while in isolation (<em>Victoria. <\/em>Good old family Royal fun without the drugs and divorces).<\/p>\n<p>And the best book he read during quarantine?<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<em>Rabbit, Run <\/em>by John Updike.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Tony Hauser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent Rolling Stone feature &#8220;Year in Review: So, How Was Your 2020, Rufus Wainwright?&#8221; the musician responded to a series of questions, including whom he&#8217;d want to quarantine with (&#8220;Carrie Fisher\u2014mainly because I miss her so much&#8221;), an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2020\/12\/31\/musician-rufus-wainwright-fights-covid-with-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":[17,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046","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=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5048,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions\/5048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}