{"id":867,"date":"2011-06-05T10:43:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=867"},"modified":"2011-06-05T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T15:43:13","slug":"celeb-uses-updikes-marry-me-to-propose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/06\/05\/celeb-uses-updikes-marry-me-to-propose\/","title":{"rendered":"Celeb uses Updike&#8217;s Marry Me to propose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2011\/06\/picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-868\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2011\/06\/picture-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>He&#8217;s not the first to do so, but British journalist and <em>America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em> judge Piers Morgan pulled out a copy of John Updike&#8217;s <em>Marry Me<\/em> when it came time to pop the question. His now-fianc\u00e9 is apparently quite the Updike fan. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.stv.tv\/showbiz\/254898-piers-morgan-to-become-a-dad\/\">STV article<\/a>. Thanks to Jack De Bellis for drawing it to our attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s not the first to do so, but British journalist and America&#8217;s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan pulled out a copy of John Updike&#8217;s Marry Me when it came time to pop the question. His now-fianc\u00e9 is apparently quite the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/06\/05\/celeb-uses-updikes-marry-me-to-propose\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}