{"id":110663,"date":"2021-04-23T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T17:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=110663"},"modified":"2021-04-23T12:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T17:06:33","slug":"president-barack-obama-virtually-visits-with-independent-bookstores-in-support-of-independent-bookstore-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/president-barack-obama-virtually-visits-with-independent-bookstores-in-support-of-independent-bookstore-day\/","title":{"rendered":"President Barack Obama Virtually Visits with Independent Bookstores in Support of Independent Bookstore Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>April 24, 2021 <\/strong>is <strong>Independent Bookstore Day<\/strong> in the United States, a one-day national celebration of<br>independent bookstores and the invaluable services they provide to our local communities. Now<br>in its seventh year, the annual event encourages readers to make a visit to their local shop as a<br>gesture of support for indies and all that they do to serve as cultural anchors within our<br>neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A long-time patron of independent bookstores, <strong>President Obama<\/strong> is celebrating Independent<br>Bookstore Day by virtually \u201cstopping in\u201d to visit with six independent bookstores from around<br>the country:<strong> Square Books<\/strong> of <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>; <strong>Eso Won Books<\/strong> of <strong>Los Angeles, California<\/strong>; <strong>Politics &amp; Prose Bookstore<\/strong> of<strong> Washington, DC<\/strong>; <strong>Parnassus Books<\/strong> of <strong>Nashville, Tennessee<\/strong>; <strong>The Lit.Bar<\/strong> of <strong>Bronx,<br>New York<\/strong>; and <strong>Literati <\/strong>of<strong> Ann Arbor, Michigan<\/strong>. Booksellers from each store spoke with the President about<br>their mutual love of reading, the craft of writing, and all things books.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JiKH55kSGNk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The video is also live on Square Books&#8217;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/facebooks.com\/squarebooks\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/squarebooks\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/squarebooks\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 24, 2021 is Independent Bookstore Day in the United States, a one-day national celebration ofindependent bookstores and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":87029,"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":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[1013,5,602],"class_list":["post-110663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-business","tag-barack-obama","tag-mississippi","tag-square-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29-Square-Books-header.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}