{"id":5707,"date":"2022-08-29T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2022-08-29T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:43:04","slug":"world-mosquito-day-prompts-return-to-updike-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/08\/29\/world-mosquito-day-prompts-return-to-updike-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"World Mosquito Day prompts return to Updike poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-29-at-7.30.45-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"304\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-29-at-7.30.45-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-29-at-7.30.45-AM.png 304w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-29-at-7.30.45-AM-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The blog <em>Flowers for Socrates<\/em> said August 20 was World Mosquito Day, and if you missed out on your usual celebration (ahem), here&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/flowersforsocrates.com\/2022\/08\/20\/a-poem-for-world-mosquito-day-2\/\">Updike poem<\/a> on the subject that blogger Nona Blyth Cloud posted that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Updike had us at &#8220;I was to her a fragrant lake of blood \/ From which she had to sip a drop or die \/ A reservoir, a lavish field of food&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flowersforsocrates.com\/2022\/08\/20\/a-poem-for-world-mosquito-day-2\/\">&#8220;The Mosquito&#8221;<\/a> was first published in the June 11, 1960 edition of <em>The New Yorker<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog Flowers for Socrates said August 20 was World Mosquito Day, and if you missed out on your usual celebration (ahem), here&#8217;s an Updike poem on the subject that blogger Nona Blyth Cloud posted that day. Updike had us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/08\/29\/world-mosquito-day-prompts-return-to-updike-poem\/\">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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-quoted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707","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=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5710,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}