{"id":789,"date":"2011-03-18T15:58:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T20:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=789"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:46:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:46:14","slug":"happy-birthday-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/03\/18\/happy-birthday-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2011\/03\/updike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-790\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2011\/03\/updike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a>Today would have been John Updike&#8217;s 79th birthday. It&#8217;s hard to believe that it&#8217;s been two years since his passing..<\/p>\n<p>In February, 2009, Charles Osgood paid tribute to Updike in a nice CBS video look back at his career, including interview clips. It bears re-watching, especially today. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/video.search.yahoo.com\/video\/play?p=john%20updike&amp;tnr=21&amp;vid=494345126711&amp;l=131&amp;turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts2.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D494345126711%26id%3Dc2b8cd16ca069aec95f1961f00dcab36%26bid%3DeoOVsDH0YXvpLQ%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.cbsnews.com%252fvideo%252fwatch%252f%253fid%253d4766959n&amp;rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fvideo%2Fwatch%2F%3Fid%3D4766959n&amp;sigr=11fibr3g5&amp;newfp=1&amp;tit=Farewell+To+John+Updike\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been John Updike&#8217;s 79th birthday. It&#8217;s hard to believe that it&#8217;s been two years since his passing.. In February, 2009, Charles Osgood paid tribute to Updike in a nice CBS video look back at his career, including &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/03\/18\/happy-birthday-john\/\">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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updikes-life-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","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=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4691,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/4691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}