{"id":1020,"date":"2007-10-19T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/illegitimate-children-in-christian-fiction.html"},"modified":"2007-10-19T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:55:00","slug":"illegitimate-children-in-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/illegitimate-children-in-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegitimate Children In Christian Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post about The Other Daughter started me to thinking about the subject of illegitimate children in Christian fiction. Three titles immediately came to mind:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/RxiQrXiMacI\/AAAAAAAAAoQ\/PPk76nsO82M\/s1600-h\/when+joy+came+to+stay.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/RxiQrXiMacI\/AAAAAAAAAoQ\/PPk76nsO82M\/s400\/when+joy+came+to+stay.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123003650860149186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/RxiNv3iMaaI\/AAAAAAAAAoA\/32X7ZhjdYac\/s1600-h\/victoria.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/RxiNv3iMaaI\/AAAAAAAAAoA\/32X7ZhjdYac\/s400\/victoria.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123000429634677154\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/RxiN4niMabI\/AAAAAAAAAoI\/KYs0gm-VIxM\/s1600-h\/deborah.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/RxiN4niMabI\/AAAAAAAAAoI\/KYs0gm-VIxM\/s400\/deborah.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123000579958532530\" \/><\/a><br \/>I blogged about Deborah&#8217;s title about a year ago:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.blogspot.com\/search?q=deborah+bedford\">A Morning Like This<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I blogged about Karen Kingsbury&#8217;s book a few months ago:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.blogspot.com\/search?q=Maggie+joy+came+to+stay\">When Joy Came To Stay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I might have blogged about Truth Be Told in my old blog through Diaryland.com<br \/>I&#8217;ll try and dig that up from my old archives and see if I can post my thoughts about that novel. <\/p>\n<p>All three of these books were well-written and they show how an unknown illegitimate child can show up and cause a marriage to go through trying times.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">Cecelia Dowdy<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post about The Other Daughter started me to thinking about the subject of illegitimate children in Christian fiction. Three titles immediately came to mind: I blogged about Deborah&#8217;s title about a year ago: A Morning Like This I blogged about Karen Kingsbury&#8217;s book a few months ago: When Joy Came To Stay I think [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-talk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-gs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}