{"id":23816,"date":"2017-01-19T14:23:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T22:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23816"},"modified":"2017-01-19T14:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T22:23:50","slug":"john-updike-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/john-updike-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back at Legend John Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/uptake.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike, one of the world&#8217;s most prolific and successful authors, wrote at least one book a year for many years. I interviewed the late, delightful writing phenom when he came to California to see his play, &#8220;Buchanan Dying,&#8221; being performed in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Updike, who died eight years ago this month, was very humble and told me how he &#8220;was in a constant struggle to stay just ahead of total silence. That&#8217;s why I need to produce a book a year. I have a fear of being forgotten, so I have to&#8221;&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/john-updike.html\">read the review<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike, one of the world&#8217;s most prolific and successful authors, wrote at least one book a year for many years. I interviewed the late, delightful writing phenom when he came to California to see his play, &#8220;Buchanan Dying,&#8221; being performed in San Diego. Updike, who died eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}