{"id":6877,"date":"2026-02-07T13:21:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6877"},"modified":"2026-02-07T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:30:50","slug":"goatpoets-features-updike-spending-an-oddly-lovely-day-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/02\/07\/goatpoets-features-updike-spending-an-oddly-lovely-day-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"GOATPoets features Updike spending &#8220;An Oddly Lovely Day Alone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/02\/07\/goatpoets-features-updike-spending-an-oddly-lovely-day-alone\/screenshot-2026-02-07-at-1-13-57-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6878\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-07-at-1.13.57-PM-236x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-07-at-1.13.57-PM-236x300.png 236w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-07-at-1.13.57-PM.png 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>There are so many interesting websites, blogs, and YouTube channels that you can find something &#8220;new&#8221; every day, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Today that new discovery was <strong><em>GOATPoets<\/em><\/strong>, which featured John Updike reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-arjHl3DQcY\">&#8220;An Oddly Lovely Day Alone,&#8221;<\/a> a poem that has echoes of Richard Maple making due while Joan is off and about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-arjHl3DQcY\">Have a look and listen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many interesting websites, blogs, and YouTube channels that you can find something &#8220;new&#8221; every day, it seems. Today that new discovery was GOATPoets, which featured John Updike reading &#8220;An Oddly Lovely Day Alone,&#8221; a poem that has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/02\/07\/goatpoets-features-updike-spending-an-oddly-lovely-day-alone\/\">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":[93,35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readings-talks","category-updike-quoted","category-updikes-life-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877","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=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6882,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}