{"id":1000,"date":"2009-01-27T19:02:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T19:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/27\/john-updike-dead-at-76\/"},"modified":"2009-01-27T21:15:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T21:15:22","slug":"john-updike-dead-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/27\/john-updike-dead-at-76\/","title":{"rendered":"john updike. dead at 76."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2:00 a.m.  I&#8217;m downstairs.  In the dark.  In my husband&#8217;s pajamas.  Microwaving milk.  <\/p>\n<p>Most of you will be able to pull an image from that.  But unless you&#8217;re a genuine, long suffering, insomniac, you won&#8217;t really appreciate the moment or how it felt or how very much it resembled a Charlie Kaufman adaptation.  And that&#8217;s exactly what insomnia feels like.  <strong>Something that&#8217;s been sitting in Charlie Kaufman&#8217;s head. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago I found a new Used Book Store.  I gave the cashier a 1.75 and she gave me &#8220;The Early Stories: 1953-1975&#8221; by John Updike.  I read it with my milk this morning in the 3:00a.m. <\/p>\n<p>Fifteen minutes ago I find out this.  He&#8217;s dead.  John.  Updike.  At 76. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2:00 a.m. I&#8217;m downstairs. In the dark. In my husband&#8217;s pajamas. Microwaving milk. Most of you will be able to pull an image from that. But unless you&#8217;re a genuine, long suffering, insomniac, you won&#8217;t really appreciate the moment or how it felt or how very much it resembled a Charlie Kaufman adaptation. And<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}