{"id":5775,"date":"2022-11-25T09:57:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T15:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2022-11-25T09:57:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T15:57:51","slug":"blogger-turns-to-updike-for-thanksgiving-thankfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/11\/25\/blogger-turns-to-updike-for-thanksgiving-thankfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger turns to Updike for Thanksgiving thankfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Patrick Kurp<\/strong>, who writes <em>Anecdotal Evidence: A blog about the intersection of books and life<\/em>, yesterday turned to Updike for his Thanksgiving post, &#8220;Give Thanks for Gradual Ceaseless Rot.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Everything I have is more and better than I deserve,&#8221; Kurp wrote. &#8220;I like expressions of gratitude for things that have never occurred to me. Take John Updike&#8217;s thankfulness for decomposition in &#8216;Ode to Rot&#8217;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;All process is reprocessing;<br>give thanks for gradual ceaseless rot<br>gnawing gross Creation fine while we sleep,<br>the lightning-forged organic conspiracy&#8217;s<br>merciful counterplot.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/give-thanks-for-gradual-ceaseless-rot.html\">full blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-25-at-8.55.38-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-25-at-8.55.38-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-25-at-8.55.38-AM.png 512w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-25-at-8.55.38-AM-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-25-at-8.55.38-AM-388x300.png 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Kurp, who writes Anecdotal Evidence: A blog about the intersection of books and life, yesterday turned to Updike for his Thanksgiving post, &#8220;Give Thanks for Gradual Ceaseless Rot.&#8221; &#8220;Everything I have is more and better than I deserve,&#8221; Kurp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/11\/25\/blogger-turns-to-updike-for-thanksgiving-thankfulness\/\">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":[53,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-in-context","category-updike-quoted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775","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=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5777,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions\/5777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}