{"id":139,"date":"2004-03-11T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2017-06-05T22:14:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T22:14:53","slug":"stowaway-to-the-mushroom-planet-by-eleanor-cameron-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2004\/03\/stowaway-to-the-mushroom-planet-by-eleanor-cameron-1956\/","title":{"rendered":"Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet, by Eleanor Cameron, 1956."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I own all the sequels to <a href=\"http:\/\/salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=145\"><i>Wonderful Flight<\/i><\/a> and will probably give them away to my friend after reading them again. They just don&#8217;t hold up that well, alas. Horatio Q. Peabody, the meddling, egotistical young man who stows away aboard Chuck and David&#8217;s spaceship, is a funny character, but otherwise the story is not very interesting (aside from the briefly-mentioned, ominous &#8220;hole in space&#8221;&#8211;I hope it shows up again in the later books). There&#8217;s the same strange feeling that Mr. Bass and his Basidium counterpart, Great Ta, somehow know and control everything that happens. But now that I think of it, it does make David and Chuck&#8217;s experiences similar to those of a child&#8211;that feeling that grown-ups are omniscient and omnipotent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I own all the sequels to Wonderful Flight and will probably give them away to my friend after reading them again. They just don&#8217;t hold up that well, alas. Horatio Q. Peabody, the meddling, egotistical young man who stows away aboard Chuck and David&#8217;s spaceship, is a funny character, but otherwise the story is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}