{"id":309,"date":"2013-05-05T22:41:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T22:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seanvogel.com\/?page_id=309"},"modified":"2013-11-21T02:58:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T02:58:06","slug":"chicago-bound","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.seanvogel.com\/index.php\/chicago-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Jake McGreevy\u2019s Adventures Continue in Chicago!<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 align=\"center\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Chicago Bound<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 align=\"center\">Jake\u2019s holiday was supposed to be about music and history\u2026not clues to a mystery<\/h3>\n<p>Jake\u2019s plan for a carefree holiday at a musical performing arts camp in the Windy City hits a sour note when he stumbles upon a long-hidden message from his mother, art historian Karen McGreevy. She had traveled to Chicago twelve years earlier on a dream assignment, never to return home. With his violin and his mother\u2019s mysterious letter in hand, Jake, his best friend Julie, and new pals Ben and Natalie are heading west, where they will follow the clues and uncover the truth about a missing masterpiece, the meaning of friendship, and the enduring bond between a mother and her son.<\/p>\n<p>\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606\u00a0<i>\u201c<\/i>Art, mystery, music, humor, and adventure\u2014<i>Chicago Bound<\/i>\u00a0has it all. . . . This is a grand read.\u201d <em>\u2014Jack Magnus for Readers\u2019 Favorite<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having spent many years searching for Mary Cassatt\u2019s 1893 mural done for Chicago\u2019s World\u2019s Fair, I was delighted to encounter Sean Vogel\u2019s <i>Chicago Bound<\/i> in which the young Jake and his pals visit the city and discover that Jake\u2019s mother was murdered in her own hunt for the mural. Tracking down the killer, and the Cassatt painting, takes the teenagers on a thrill-packed adventure from the Art Institute of Chicago, to a tea room in Marshall Fields, to the grand finale in, of all places, a retirement home. <i>Chicago Bound<\/i> is loving and eventful, and most of all a great read.&#8221; <em>\u2014<\/em>Sally Webster, author of <i>Eve\u2019s Daughter: Modern Woman, a Mural by Mary Cassatt<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake McGreevy\u2019s Adventures Continue in Chicago! \u00a0Chicago Bound Jake\u2019s holiday was supposed to be about music and history\u2026not clues to a mystery Jake\u2019s plan for a carefree holiday at a musical performing arts camp in the Windy City hits a sour note when he stumbles upon a long-hidden message from his mother, art historian Karen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"custom_template.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-309","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanvogel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanvogel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanvogel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanvogel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanvogel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanvogel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanvogel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanvogel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->