{"id":25083,"date":"2024-10-31T12:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25083"},"modified":"2024-10-31T12:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:02:53","slug":"a-heartbeat-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/a-heartbeat-away\/","title":{"rendered":"A Heartbeat Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23dddddd&amp;d=nov24_issuu.com&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=44&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">\u201cA good bodyguard doesn\u2019t have close calls.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Story by Clif Travers<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Jeffrey Maguire<\/strong> has a sober view of the world, one that\u2019s based on years of war and peril. \u201cI served in Iraq until 2005, and I had a lot of time for reflection,\u201d he says. \u201cI knew I wanted to use my experiences in a positive way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">He met <strong>Rihanna<\/strong>\u2019s first manager in 2005, and that\u2019s how the <strong>Maguire Protection Service<\/strong> (MPS) started. \u201cShe was up-and-coming and looking for security, so I became her first bodyguard. That led to working for <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> and <strong>Beyonce<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25084\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AHeartbeatAway.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AHeartbeatAway.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AHeartbeatAway-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AHeartbeatAway-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got Your Back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1491],"class_list":["post-25083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-november-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25139,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25083\/revisions\/25139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}