{"id":3718,"date":"2017-07-10T10:29:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T14:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2017-12-03T11:04:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T16:04:59","slug":"growing-up-gangster-by-gregory-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/?p=3718","title":{"rendered":"Growing Up Gangster by Gregory Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Paperback:\u00a0378 pages
\nPublisher:\u00a0Brown Girls Publishing
\nPrice: $15.00
\nPurchase: Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

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Powerful…Poignant…Inspiring As a child growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Gregory Marshall was enamored with the fast life. Money, women and cars were the things to have and Greg was determined to get them-by any means necessary. It wasn’t long before the innocent youngster had turned into a cold-hearted gangster known around town simply as G Man. His ruthless life of crime made him a legend in South Central LA-and the go-to man for everyone from Tupac Shakur to the notorious Monster Kody. But a drug deal gone bad eventually left him shot and near death…forcing him into the ultimate struggle for survival. Faced with intense rehabilitation and paralysis that had crippled the entire right side of his body, Greg had two choices, give up or get up. He chose the latter. And with the use of only one finger, he wrote his story through gritty, breathtaking, and sometimes brutal details…including his anger at injustices, the pain of abandonment and one unlikely act of kindness that started him on the path of healing and forgiveness.<\/p>\n

*** Watch the vlog review here:\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/7ihwparEYdQ\u00a0<\/a>***<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Growing Up Gangster<\/em> is a powerful memoir about Gregory Marshall’s life. Gregory entered a life of crime at an early age, which was partly\u00a0due to his father being absent from his life. His father had left his mother and abandoned him and his siblings, and started a new family. The rejection and\u00a0pain he felt from what his father did drove him to the streets and into a life of crime.<\/p>\n

If you want read a well-written memoir that will have you at the edge of your seat, I highly recommend this one.<\/p>\n

For a more detailed and thorough review, please be sure to watch my vlog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Greg Marshall<\/a> was an innocent youngster-turned-gangster whose journey took him from the dangerous streets of South Central Los Angeles to the Deep South in Natchez, Mississippi. A life of crime, several stints in prison, all led up to Greg being shot and left for dead in a drug deal gone bad forcing him into the ultimate struggle for survival. After undergoing an intense rehabilitation, in which Greg had to overcome paralysis throughout the right side of his body, he penned his story about the deepest secrets of street life and the underworld, but also of how he eventually embraced God\u2019s redemption and forgiveness. Greg\u2019s story is one of pain, despair, crime, love, healing\u2014all leading to where he is today\u2014hoping to make a positive difference in the lives of others and becoming a beacon of hope for those who need it most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paperback:\u00a0378 pages Publisher:\u00a0Brown Girls Publishing Price: $15.00 Purchase: Amazon                 Description Powerful…Poignant…Inspiring As a child growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Gregory Marshall was enamored with the fast life. Money, women and cars were the things to have and Greg was determined to get them-by any means […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[1447,1068,1445,1444,32,742,1403,1446,1203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3726,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}