{"id":5136,"date":"2021-06-05T17:13:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T22:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2021-06-05T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T22:21:54","slug":"singer-songwriter-pens-performs-song-about-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/06\/05\/singer-songwriter-pens-performs-song-about-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer-songwriter pens, performs song about Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-05-at-4.15.01-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5137\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-05-at-4.15.01-PM-300x274.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-05-at-4.15.01-PM-300x274.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-05-at-4.15.01-PM-328x300.png 328w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-05-at-4.15.01-PM.png 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gary Louris<\/strong>, a singer-songwriter and founding member of the Minneapolis-based band The Jayhawks, has written a song titled &#8220;Mr. Updike,&#8221; his ode to the author.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Updike&#8221; is one of the singles on a solo album that was released today, June 4 on Sham\/Thirty Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>You can see Louris perform <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5iGTGgm9rwI\">&#8220;Mr. Updike&#8221; in a music video<\/a> on YouTube. In addition, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/orcd.co\/jumpforjoy\">link to <em>Jump for Joy\u2014<\/em><\/a>that new album written, performed, recorded, and produced entirely by Louris, who says he&#8217;s currently rereading <em>Rabbit Redux<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Louris, a singer-songwriter and founding member of the Minneapolis-based band The Jayhawks, has written a song titled &#8220;Mr. Updike,&#8221; his ode to the author. &#8220;Mr. Updike&#8221; is one of the singles on a solo album that was released today, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/06\/05\/singer-songwriter-pens-performs-song-about-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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","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=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5141,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}