{"id":55914,"date":"2014-07-10T18:45:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T02:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55914"},"modified":"2014-07-10T18:46:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T02:46:22","slug":"rogers-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55914","title":{"rendered":"Roger&#8217;s Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The protagonist in this John Updike <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roger's_Version\">novel<\/a>, Roger, a divinity professor, wants to bed Verna, the single-mother daughter of his half-sister. Roger convinces her to get an abortion. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2014\/03\/john-updike-life-in-fiction-adam-begley.html\">Adam Begley writes in his biography of John Updike<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In the dingy anteroom, surveying the other &#8220;prospective mothers,&#8221; he spots a black girl with wet cheeks and an otherwise impassive face, &#8220;an African mask, her lips and jaw majestically protruding.&#8221; Later, seeing that her tears have dried, he marvels at this &#8220;princess of a race that travels from cradle to grave at the expense of the state, like the aristocrats of old.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The protagonist in this John Updike novel, Roger, a divinity professor, wants to bed Verna, the single-mother daughter of his half-sister. Roger convinces her to get an abortion. Adam Begley writes in his biography of John Updike: In the dingy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55914\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29575],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-updike-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55916,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55914\/revisions\/55916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}