{"id":5819,"date":"2023-01-02T12:56:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T18:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2023-01-02T12:56:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T18:56:16","slug":"yahoo-feature-identifies-celebrities-living-with-psoriasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/01\/02\/yahoo-feature-identifies-celebrities-living-with-psoriasis\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! feature identifies celebrities living with psoriasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-02-at-11.55.12-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-02-at-11.55.12-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-02-at-11.55.12-AM.png 259w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-02-at-11.55.12-AM-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Surely there were more than 21 celebrities who had psoriasis, but a writer for news aggregate site Yahoo!&#8217;s &#8220;women&#8217;s health&#8221; section settled on that number . . . among them, John Updike (#20). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet penned a 1985 essay for\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0aptly titled <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/1985\/09\/02\/at-war-with-my-skin\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;At War With My Skin,<\/a>&#8216; where he addressed his struggles with the autoimmune disease. In his essay,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1993\/10\/20\/health\/personal-health-struggling-for-peace-in-the-war-against-psoriasis.html\" target=\"_blank\">Updike wrote<\/a>, &#8216;Why did I marry so young? Because, having once found a comely female who forgave me my skin, I dared not risk losing her and trying to find another.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/celebrities-living-psoriasis-jonathan-van-151200611.html\">entire article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surely there were more than 21 celebrities who had psoriasis, but a writer for news aggregate site Yahoo!&#8217;s &#8220;women&#8217;s health&#8221; section settled on that number . . . among them, John Updike (#20). &#8220;The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet penned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/01\/02\/yahoo-feature-identifies-celebrities-living-with-psoriasis\/\">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":[53,70,35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-in-context","category-updike-in-pop-culture","category-updike-quoted","category-updikes-life-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","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=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5821,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}