{"id":5841,"date":"2023-01-14T16:21:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T22:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5841"},"modified":"2023-01-14T16:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T22:39:50","slug":"aspen-times-letter-writer-invokes-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/01\/14\/aspen-times-letter-writer-invokes-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Times letter writer invokes Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Writing to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/stone-some-quiet-contemplation\/\">Aspen Times<\/a><\/em> about the &#8220;doldrums of mid-January,&#8221; <strong>Andy Stone<\/strong> of Missouri Heights shared an Updike poem that he thought appropriate for seasonal contemplation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Slum Lords<\/em><br>The superrich make lousy neighbors\u2014<br>they buy a house and tear it down<br>and build another, twice as big, and leave.<br>They\u2019re never there; they own so many<br>other houses, each demands a visit.<br>Entire neighborhoods called fashionable,<br>bustling with servants and masters, such as<br>Louisburg Square in Boston or Bel Air in L.A.,<br>are districts now like Wall Street after dark<br>or Tombstone once the silver boom went bust.<br>The essence of superrich is absence.<br>They like to demonstrate they can afford<br>to be elsewhere. Don\u2019t let them in.<br>Their riches form a kind of poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Updike<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing to the Aspen Times about the &#8220;doldrums of mid-January,&#8221; Andy Stone of Missouri Heights shared an Updike poem that he thought appropriate for seasonal contemplation: Slum LordsThe superrich make lousy neighbors\u2014they buy a house and tear it downand build &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/01\/14\/aspen-times-letter-writer-invokes-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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5841","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\/5841","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=5841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5842,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions\/5842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}