{"id":21641,"date":"2014-01-15T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=21641"},"modified":"2014-01-09T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:44:39","slug":"follow-the-money-by-steve-boggan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/follow-the-money-by-steve-boggan\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the Money by Steve Boggan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=1007756\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21642\" alt=\"follow the money\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/follow-the-money.jpg?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/follow-the-money.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/follow-the-money.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/follow-the-money.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/follow-the-money.jpg?resize=144%2C144&amp;ssl=1 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>What do you do if you want to really understand a country, to understand its people and feel its heartbeat? You can follow the rest of the tourists, or you can take the advice of Watergate reporter Bob Woodward\u2019s source, \u2018Deep Throat\u2019, and \u2018follow the money.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Starting out in Lebanon, Kansas &#8211; the geographical center of America &#8211; \u00a0journalist Steve Boggan did just that in <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=1007756\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Follow the Money<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by setting free a ten-dollar-bill and accompanying it on an epic journey for thirty days and thirty nights through six states, across 3,000 miles armed only with a sense of humor and a small, and increasingly grubby, set of clothes. As he cuts crops with farmers in Kansas, pursues a repo-woman from Colorado, gets wasted with a blues band in Arkansas and hangs out at a quarterback\u2019s mansion in St Louis, Boggan enters the lives of ordinary people as they receive &#8211; and pass on &#8211; the bill. What emerges is a chaotic, affectionate and funny portrait of the real modern-day America.<em> (description from publisher)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do if you want to really understand a country, to understand its people and feel its heartbeat? You can follow the rest of the tourists, or you can take the advice of Watergate reporter Bob Woodward\u2019s source, \u2018Deep Throat\u2019, and \u2018follow the money.\u2019 Starting out in Lebanon,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/follow-the-money-by-steve-boggan\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[705,165,566],"class_list":["post-21641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-america","tag-humor","tag-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5D3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21644,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641\/revisions\/21644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}