{"id":731,"date":"2012-10-04T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T18:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicebyrd.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2012-10-15T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:25:52","slug":"book-no-legal-grounds-by-james-scott-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/book-no-legal-grounds-by-james-scott-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: No Legal Grounds by James Scott Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wondered what you would do if someone from your past, a past you had tried desperately to forget, were to suddenly insert themselves into your life?\u00a0 And what if that person threatened your children and demonstrated their ability to make good on their threats?\u00a0 That\u2019s the situation attorney Sam Trask finds himself in\u2014only this time the law can\u2019t help him.\u00a0 No Legal Grounds, <\/em>is both the title of James Scott Bell\u2019s crime thriller and the dilemma that faces his protagonist–middle-aged, family-man Sam Trask.<\/p>\n

Sam had really tried to make amends for his past.\u00a0 When he became a Christian, Sam had been assured that God had forgiven and forgotten his sin.\u00a0 So, Sam figured what was happening to him now might be some of those lingering consequences his pastor had warned him about.\u00a0 Satan would try to use any and everything, including his guilt and remorse to keep him down.\u00a0 Well, it wasn\u2019t going to happen; he\u2019d fight this.\u00a0 He knew the law.\u00a0 He believed in the justice system, and he trusted that God wasn\u2019t going to abandon him.<\/p>\n

But then, Sam\u2019s teen-age daughter runs away, his son\u2019s dog is killed, and his boss starts to doubt Sam\u2019s mental stability.\u00a0 When every legal defense fails him, Sam begs God for some supernatural help.\u00a0 After all, he\u2019s trying to do the right thing!<\/p>\n

Like Sam, when I\u2019m cornered and scared to death, I\u2019m in a place where God has my attention. \u00a0It\u2019s then that I really learn about justice, and mercy, even when there are no legal grounds<\/em> for either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wondered what you would do if someone from your past, a past you had tried desperately to forget, were to suddenly insert themselves into your life?\u00a0 And what if that person threatened your children and demonstrated their ability to make good on their threats?\u00a0 That\u2019s the situation attorney Sam Trask finds himself […] Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}