{"id":947,"date":"2013-09-01T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T11:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=947"},"modified":"2013-09-01T11:18:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T11:18:02","slug":"john-updike-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"John Updike quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-487\" style=\"width: 127px; height: 121px;\" alt=\"Speech marks\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks-150x150.png\" width=\"130\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>Updike, John (1932 &#8211; ), US author<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people&#8217;s patience.<\/p>\n<p>Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.<\/p>\n<p><i>We are most alive when we&#8217;re in love.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updike, John (1932 &#8211; ), US author A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people&#8217;s patience. Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=947\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-quotations","tag-famous-quotations-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}