{"id":5889,"date":"2023-01-29T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T16:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2023-01-29T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T16:01:18","slug":"john-updike-childhood-home-docents-are-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/01\/29\/john-updike-childhood-home-docents-are-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"John Updike Childhood Home docents are celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The John Updike Society thanked the volunteer docents that keep the John Updike Childhood Home running every weekend by treating them to a dinner at Victor Emmanuel, a local club. The idea for the dinner came from director Maria Lester, who organized the fete with help from the home&#8217;s very first docent, Dave Ruoff. Docents make small museums &#8220;work,&#8221; and the society is grateful for ours: Charlie Adams, Jill Koestel, Ken Krawchuk, Maria McDonnell, Sara Peek, Travis Peek, Paige Sechler, Linda Sepeda, Liz Siegfried, Susan Weiser, and Ruoff and Lester, who also give tours. Welcome too to three brand-new docents: Bob Fleck, Nancy Kennedy, and Shpresa Ymeraj. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/326485689_1122291241783463_6264258577402561939_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/326485689_1122291241783463_6264258577402561939_n-1024x660.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/326485689_1122291241783463_6264258577402561939_n-1024x660.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/326485689_1122291241783463_6264258577402561939_n-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/326485689_1122291241783463_6264258577402561939_n-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/326485689_1122291241783463_6264258577402561939_n-1536x990.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/326485689_1122291241783463_6264258577402561939_n-465x300.jpg 465w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/326485689_1122291241783463_6264258577402561939_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The John Updike Society thanked the volunteer docents that keep the John Updike Childhood Home running every weekend by treating them to a dinner at Victor Emmanuel, a local club. The idea for the dinner came from director Maria Lester, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/01\/29\/john-updike-childhood-home-docents-are-celebrated\/\">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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-john-updike-childhood-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889","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=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5891,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions\/5891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}