{"id":1185,"date":"2025-11-18T02:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/?page_id=1185"},"modified":"2025-11-18T02:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:42:06","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/about-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image border-img\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1835\" style=\"width:409px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Hideaway: A Memoir, Book 1<\/em><\/strong> recounts Brenda Ray\u2019s unforgettable childhood on Washington\u2019s remote Lake Ozette in the mid-1950s. After her parents\u2019 marriage ends, Brenda\u2019s mother relocates her four children from Bremerton to a tiny, rundown shack in the wilderness\u2014an off-the-grid life that demands resilience, teamwork, and ingenuity. As the family rebuilds the shack into their home, they learn to thrive without modern comforts, drawing strength from nature, from one another, and from the rugged beauty surrounding them. Blending vivid memories, family history, and heartfelt reflection, Ray captures an extraordinary way of life that has all but disappeared \u2014 and the profound impact those years left on her and her siblings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-63375db1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/excerpt-2\/\" style=\"border-radius:3px;background-color:#37587b;font-size:15px\"><strong>READ AN EXCERPT<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xlibris.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/865615-hideaway\" style=\"border-radius:3px;background-color:#37587b;font-size:15px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>ORDER A COPY NOW<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hideaway: A Memoir, Book 1 recounts Brenda Ray\u2019s unforgettable childhood on Washington\u2019s remote Lake Ozette in the mid-1950s. After her parents\u2019 marriage ends, Brenda\u2019s mother relocates her four children from Bremerton to a tiny, rundown shack in the wilderness\u2014an off-the-grid life that demands resilience, teamwork, and ingenuity. As the family rebuilds the shack into their &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/about-the-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1934,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1185","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","no-comments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}