{"id":4697,"date":"2009-01-28T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T13:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2009-01-28T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T13:46:49","slug":"rabbit-at-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/rabbit-at-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit at rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/johnupdike.jpg\" alt=\"johnupdike\" title=\"johnupdike\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4698\" \/><\/div>\n<p>While there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2008\/aug\/22\/inhislatestnovelthe?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=books\">some debate<\/a> as to whether his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/oct\/28\/johnupdike\">recent works<\/a> were relevant, the death of writer, essayist and critic <b>John Updike<\/b> has sent tremors through the literary world: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/jan\/28\/johnupdike-usa\">Martin Amis<\/a>, <I>&#8220;He took the novel onto another plane of intimacy&#8221;<\/i>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/28\/books\/28appr.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">Michiko Kakutani<\/a>, <I>&#8220;Arguably this country&#8217;s one true all-around man of letters&#8221;<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Recipient of last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/nov\/25\/bad-sex-johnson-updike-fiction\">Bad Sex Award: Lifetime Achievement<\/a>, Updike will be fondly remembered, and rightly so, for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/jan\/27\/johnupdike\">Harry &#8220;Rabbit&#8221; Angstrom<\/a> sagas. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/arts_and_culture\/7855825.stm\">R.I.P. <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/the-bat-segundo-show-50\/\">John Updike<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there&#8217;s some debate as to whether his recent works were relevant, the death of writer, essayist and critic John Updike has sent tremors through the literary world: Martin Amis, &#8220;He took the novel onto another plane of intimacy&#8221;; Michiko Kakutani, &#8220;Arguably this country&#8217;s one true all-around man of letters&#8221;. Recipient of last year&#8217;s Bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}