{"id":6559,"date":"2025-03-18T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T21:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2025-03-18T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T21:41:13","slug":"happy-93rd-birthday-mr-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2025\/03\/18\/happy-93rd-birthday-mr-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 93rd Birthday, Mr. Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Updike, who died in 2009, would have been 93 today. Here’s how his bedroom at The John Updike Childhood Home,117 Philadelphia Avenue, in Shillington, Pa., looks now. The dogwood tree planted a year later, on his first birthday, still greens out and blooms every year. Happy Birthday, Mr. Updike! \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Updike, who died in 2009, would have been 93 today. Here’s how his bedroom at The John Updike Childhood Home,117 Philadelphia Avenue, in Shillington, Pa., looks now. The dogwood tree planted a year later, on his first birthday, still … Continue reading →<\/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":[12,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559","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=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6561,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions\/6561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}