{"id":1150,"date":"2017-06-18T19:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2017-06-21T22:18:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T02:18:44","slug":"character-bio-norman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/character-bio-norman\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Bio: Norman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Full Name: <\/strong><\/em>Norman Barrister<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Norman-cartoonized-e1497656906215.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Norman-cartoonized-e1497656906215-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Norman-cartoonized-e1497656906215-300x295.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Norman-cartoonized-e1497656906215.jpg 699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Occupation: <\/strong><\/em>Retired Army Colonel \/\u00a0Seattle Mayor Candidate<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gender:<\/strong><\/em> Male<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sexual Orientation:<\/strong><\/em> Gay<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hair:<\/strong> <\/em>Brown<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Eyes:<\/strong> <\/em>Brown<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Height:<\/strong> <\/em>6&#8242; 4&#8243;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Weight: <\/strong><\/em>230\u00a0lbs<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hobbies:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Golfing, yard work, exercising, lying to himself<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Background: <\/em><\/strong>Norman is a Seattle native who excelled at sports and other leadership roles.\u00a0He graduated from West Point, where he met his wife Delilah,\u00a0and led a long and distinguished career in the Army. After retiring from the military as a colonel, he returned to Seattle and decided to run for mayor as a way to give back to the community that raised him.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Beneath the Surface: <\/strong><\/em>Though Norman exudes charisma and confidence, he secretly\u00a0considers himself\u00a0superior to\u00a0most people\u00a0and thinks it&#8217;s his right to\u00a0lead the &#8220;weak,&#8221; while also paradoxically being\u00a0filled with shame over his repressed homosexuality. The resulting cognitive dissonance has him a hair&#8217;s-width away from exploding with irrational rage at any moment, and easily manipulated by unscrupulous Italian men.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Appears in: <\/em><\/strong><em>Vengeance<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full Name: Norman Barrister Occupation: Retired Army Colonel \/\u00a0Seattle Mayor Candidate Gender: Male Sexual Orientation: Gay Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Height: 6&#8242; 4&#8243; Weight: 230\u00a0lbs Hobbies:\u00a0Golfing, yard work, exercising, lying to himself Background: Norman is a Seattle native who excelled at sports and other leadership roles.\u00a0He graduated from West Point, where he met his wife &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/character-bio-norman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Character Bio: Norman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[245,220,219,240,218],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-norman-barrister","tag-reckoning","tag-retribution","tag-valentine-shepherd-series","tag-vengeance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Vyi8-iy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}