{"id":92,"date":"2025-06-14T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/?p=92"},"modified":"2025-06-14T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:26:40","slug":"deadwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/deadwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Release: <strong>Ponopolis VI \u2013 Deadwood<\/strong><br>Last summer, I hit the road with Denise, Karin, and Mike for some hands-on research in Deadwood, South Dakota. We spent a few days traipsing around the Black Hills, soaking up local legends and history\u2014and more than a little whiskey\u2014while calling the Historic Franklin Hotel home. Big thanks to my crew for making it a trip to remember.<br>The result? <strong>Deadwood<\/strong>, the latest entry in the Ponopolis series.<br>Months after Road Dust plays one of the biggest gigs in American history, Ray and his band are flush with cash, but Ray can\u2019t shake a ghost from his past. Flashback to the late \u201990s: a younger Ray and his brother roll into Deadwood with a scheme to relieve a few tech millionaires of some easy money. But Deadwood\u2019s got ghosts of its own\u2014like China Doll, a legend who never quite faded away, and Dom Russo, a Chicago mob boss with his own agenda. When these two crash Ray\u2019s plans, the whole job starts to unravel.<br><strong>Deadwood<\/strong> is a story about the past you can\u2019t outrun, bad luck, and the kind of legends you only find in places like Deadwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Release: Ponopolis VI \u2013 DeadwoodLast summer, I hit the road with Denise, Karin, and Mike for some hands-on research in Deadwood, South Dakota. We&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/deadwood\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deadwood<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponopolis-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponopolis.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}