{"id":6091,"date":"2023-06-01T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2023-06-01T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:06:12","slug":"rabbit-run-and-74-other-novels-lauded-for-last-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/06\/01\/rabbit-run-and-74-other-novels-lauded-for-last-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit, Run and 74 other novels lauded for last lines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jules Buono of <em>The Literary Lifestyle<\/em> published a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.julesbuono.com\/famous-last-lines-of-books\/\">&#8220;75 Famous Last Lines of Books That Make the Best Book Endings,&#8221;<\/a> and John Updike&#8217;s title-specific last line of <em>Rabbit, Run<\/em> made the list . . . though you have to scroll down quite a ways to read Updike&#8217;s ending:  &#8220;He Runs. Ah: runs. Runs.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Buono ever compiles a list of the best short story titles, odds are that Updike&#8217;s &#8220;Your Lover Just Called&#8221; will probably make the list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jules Buono of The Literary Lifestyle published a list of &#8220;75 Famous Last Lines of Books That Make the Best Book Endings,&#8221; and John Updike&#8217;s title-specific last line of Rabbit, Run made the list . . . though you have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/06\/01\/rabbit-run-and-74-other-novels-lauded-for-last-lines\/\">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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","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=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}