{"id":26,"date":"2025-11-18T01:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/859177\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-11-18T02:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:14:37","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/859177\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/859177\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1860\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bill Matthews<\/strong> earned a degree in criminal justice and is a graduate of the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy. He was the chief detective in Athens, Tennessee, a private investigator, a two-time Tennessee State Police Olympic wrestling champion, a Police Olympic Softball champion, bounty hunter, and bodyguard. He is also the author of the award winning book The Last Ride of the Old Peacekeepers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jan Pinner Matthews<\/strong> started out as \u201cLittle Pinner\u201d. She knows what it\u2019s like to live in the shadows, supporting, encouraging, and loving beyond explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">As a little girl, she was known as the Pinner boys\u2019 little sister. Then she was the sister to \u201cMiss Lee College,\u201d and soon became Josh and Jodi\u2019s mom, and Bill Matthews\u2019 wife.. She was a stay-at-home mom until her children were in high school, at which time, she moved into the automotive world with a successful career in Global Supply Chain management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:260px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Matthews earned a degree in criminal justice and is a graduate of the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy. He was the chief detective in Athens, Tennessee, a private investigator, a two-time Tennessee State Police Olympic wrestling champion, a Police Olympic Softball champion, bounty hunter, and bodyguard. He is also the author of the award &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/859177\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Authors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1909,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","no-comments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/859177\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/859177\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/859177\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/859177\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/859177\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/859177\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/859177\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/859177\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}