{"id":16070,"date":"2021-05-19T00:11:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T00:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=16070"},"modified":"2021-05-18T20:14:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:14:47","slug":"half-million-dollar-cop-lands-book-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/half-million-dollar-cop-lands-book-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-Million-Dollar Cop Lands Book Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16072\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16072\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NeverOffDuty3DCover-300x277.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NeverOffDuty3DCover-300x277.png 300w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NeverOffDuty3DCover-1024x944.png 1024w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NeverOffDuty3DCover-768x708.png 768w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NeverOffDuty3DCover-150x138.png 150w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NeverOffDuty3DCover-696x642.png 696w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NeverOffDuty3DCover-1068x985.png 1068w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NeverOffDuty3DCover-456x420.png 456w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NeverOffDuty3DCover.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bellevue deputy marshal Nate Silvester\u2019s book will go on sale in September.<br \/>Image credit: DiAngelo Publications<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">White privilege, free speech or, more likely something in between, is alive and well. With a new goal of reaching $1 million in his GoFundMe campaign (he\u2019s more than halfway there), Bellevue deputy marshal Nate Silvester has landed a book deal, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDeputy Marshal Nate Silvester shares a revealing look at his life as a cop in 2021, the societal pressures of the job, the concept of being \u2018never off duty,\u2019 and standing up to speak on behalf of tens of thousands of silenced police officers and their frightened families,\u201d his publisher DiAngelo Publications says on the page hawking pre-orders of the $25 book, the first 200 copies of which will be signed by Silvester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Silvester made himself semi-famous in recent weeks when one of his TikTok videos went viral. In the video, Silvester\u2014in uniform and apparently in a squad car\u2014acts out a fictitious conversation between himself and NBA superstar LeBron James. The video aims to poke holes in what Silvester assumes to be James\u2019 view on excessive force by police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Silvester apparently lost one week of pay when the Bellevue Marshal\u2019s Office put him on leave following the video release. He said he will donate some of the money he\u2019s made from the campaign to a police-focused charity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White privilege, free speech or, more likely something in between, is alive and well. With a new goal of reaching $1 million in his GoFundMe campaign (he\u2019s more than halfway there), Bellevue deputy marshal Nate Silvester has landed a book deal, too.\u00a0 \u201cDeputy Marshal Nate Silvester shares a revealing look at his life as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,83,84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bellevue","8":"category-idaho","9":"category-in-brief","10":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16075,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions\/16075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}