{"id":50,"date":"2024-10-10T00:40:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T00:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:50:49","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/about-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT THE BOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-119\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/book.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"901\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/book.png 901w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/book-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/book-768x704.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 901px) 100vw, 901px\" \/>I have worked the violent streets of LA for over 3 decades and was thrust into situations requiring immediate action in the face of danger to prevent lives from being lost. While violence is a reality in our society, especially while policing, my ability to stay safe and return home to my family has been dependent on the ability to walk that Think Blue Line without allowing death\u2019s shadow to cross over it. <strong><em>9 Lives<\/em><\/strong> will take you through an account of several encounters, where I have narrowly avoided paying the ultimate sacrifice. As the reader, you will have the ability to live each of these lives as my partner and will have access to the actual 9-1-1 calls, police radio transmission, and body-worn video associated with the expenditure of each life. While balancing my roles as a supervisor and also that of a Chaplain, this book takes you to the front lines of policing. From close calls to the end of watch \u2014 this is my story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/excerpt-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read an excerpt<\/a> <a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westbowpress.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/866792-9-lives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Order a copy now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have worked the violent streets of LA for over 3 decades and was thrust into situations requiring immediate action in the face of danger to prevent lives from being lost. While violence is a reality in our society, especially while policing, my ability to stay safe and return home to my family has been<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/about-the-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ABOUT THE BOOK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/866792\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}