{"id":13202,"date":"2020-07-29T15:57:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T14:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13202"},"modified":"2020-07-29T15:57:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T14:57:35","slug":"stephen_cox_-_our_child_of_the_stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/07\/29\/stephen_cox_-_our_child_of_the_stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Cox &#8211; &#8220;Our Child of the Stars&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A meteor crashes into the woods near the small town, except it turns out to be not a meteor but an alien spaceship. The only ones alive are the pilot and her child. Both are taken to a hospital. The pilot dies shortly after, but the child is sneaked away by a nurse who keeps him alive and basically adopts him as her child. But it&#8217;s hard to keep a curious, restless alien child a complete secret.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it&#8217;s a nice book, somewhat naive, with a feel-good tone. The couple who adopt the alien boy treat him with endless love and curious wonder. Nobody is ever frustrated or angry; everyone is lovely but flawed in an almost predictable pattern. Adopting the alien heals Molly&#8217;s spiritual wounds.<\/p>\n<p>This is a small-scale story, about just a few characters and their small-scale joys and worries. The book doesn&#8217;t have any grander ambition and never rises above the late 1960s suburban atmosphere. &#8220;Be nice to people who look and act differently.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meteor crashes into the woods near the small town, except it turns out to be not a meteor but an alien spaceship. The only ones alive are the pilot and her child. Both are taken to a hospital. The pilot dies shortly after, but the child is sneaked away by a nurse who keeps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13205,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202\/revisions\/13205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}