{"id":6926,"date":"2026-03-18T08:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:31:29","slug":"happy-94th-birthday-mr-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/03\/18\/happy-94th-birthday-mr-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 94th Birthday, Mr. Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/03\/18\/happy-94th-birthday-mr-updike\/juch-bookmark-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6927\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6927\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/03\/JUCH-bookmark-copy-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/03\/JUCH-bookmark-copy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/03\/JUCH-bookmark-copy-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/03\/JUCH-bookmark-copy-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/03\/JUCH-bookmark-copy.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>John Updike, who died in 2009, would have been 94 today, and we not only remember him but continue to celebrate his virtuosity with language and his audacity to speak what he perceived to be true of human behavior. Cheers, Mr. Updike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; John Updike, who died in 2009, would have been 94 today, and we not only remember him but continue to celebrate his virtuosity with language and his audacity to speak what he perceived to be true of human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/03\/18\/happy-94th-birthday-mr-updike\/\">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":[35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-quoted","category-updikes-life-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926","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=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6929,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions\/6929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}