{"id":12,"date":"2005-10-02T04:15:20","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T08:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-09-23T14:39:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T18:39:27","slug":"nicky-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNicky Porter\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s featured character calls herself Nicky Porter.<\/p>\n<p>She is fifteen years old, she seems to spend a lot of time in bars, and she&#8217;s apparently stalking a successful young novelist named Perry Nelson. <\/p>\n<p>She introduces herself as Nicky Porter, but that may be an alias.  Nicky is the name of the protagonist of two of Perry Nelson&#8217;s novels, and she seems to have picked it when she suddenly had to come up with a name to call herself. <\/p>\n<p>In <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.u-town.com\/text\/sane\/sane03.html\">A Sane Woman<\/a>, we see her sitting in a bar, watching some people who may lead her to Perry Nelson.  It seems that she ran away from home some time before. <\/p>\n<p>She appears very briefly in <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.u-town.com\/text\/utown\/dreamnow.htm\">U-town<\/a>, near the end, in another bar.  It&#8217;s unclear if she&#8217;s still after Perry Nelson. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you want to find out who she really is, you need to read the new <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.u-town.com\/text\/word00.html\">novel<\/a>, because it&#8217;s all about her.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F12&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F12&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s featured character calls herself Nicky Porter. She is fifteen years old, she seems to spend a lot of time in bars, and she&#8217;s apparently stalking a successful young novelist named Perry Nelson. She introduces herself as Nicky Porter, but that may be an alias. Nicky is the name of the protagonist of two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characters","tag-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}