{"id":6118,"date":"2023-06-14T08:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6118"},"modified":"2023-06-14T08:32:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:32:02","slug":"updikes-couples-in-the-news-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/06\/14\/updikes-couples-in-the-news-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike&#8217;s Couples in the news again?"},"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\/06\/2003_9_couples.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/06\/2003_9_couples.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6119\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>The Gothamist<\/em> recently published a small news-muse item about an establishment in Berlin, Connecticut that was &#8220;busted for violating the town&#8217;s ordinances on sexually oriented businesses.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Couple swapping is apparently legal there, but not charging an entry fee for swingers. &#8220;Gotta love suburbia,&#8221; <em>The Gothamist<\/em> wrote, adding, &#8220;John Updike literally wrote the book on couple swapping: <em>Couples<\/em>. And <em>The Ice Storm<\/em> featured key parties and wife-swapping (read the book or watch the film).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gothamist recently published a small news-muse item about an establishment in Berlin, Connecticut that was &#8220;busted for violating the town&#8217;s ordinances on sexually oriented businesses.&#8221; Couple swapping is apparently legal there, but not charging an entry fee for swingers. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/06\/14\/updikes-couples-in-the-news-again\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-in-context","category-updike-in-pop-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118","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=6118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions\/6120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}