{"id":127298,"date":"2023-03-14T11:56:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=127298"},"modified":"2023-03-14T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:56:56","slug":"the-blueberry-becomes-official-state-fruit-of-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-blueberry-becomes-official-state-fruit-of-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blueberry Becomes Official State Fruit of Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves<\/strong>, on Monday, March 13, 2023, signed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/billstatus.ls.state.ms.us\/2023\/pdf\/history\/HB\/HB1027.xml\">House Bill 1027<\/a>\u00a0which designates the blueberry as the official state fruit of Mississippi.<br>\u00a0<br>A group of fourth grade <strong>Mannsdale Upper Elementary School<\/strong> students led the way on this issue as a result of a school project. They researched the fruit, lobbied representatives, and joined Governor Reeves for the bill signing at the capitol alongside the bill\u2019s author, <strong>Representative<\/strong> <strong>Jill Ford<\/strong>.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cI was happy to sign this legislation into law. This is all thanks to the initiative of these great Mannsdale Upper Elementary School students,\u201d said Governor Reeves. \u201cI\u2019m very proud of their efforts leading the way on this issue and rallying the legislature to their cause. I enjoyed meeting them at the signing ceremony. They have bright futures ahead of them!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><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\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/reeves-1536x1024-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/reeves-1536x1024-1.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/reeves-1536x1024-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/reeves-1536x1024-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/reeves-1536x1024-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/reeves-1536x1024-1.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/reeves-1536x1024-1.jpg?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, on Monday, March 13, 2023, signed\u00a0House Bill 1027\u00a0which designates the blueberry as the official<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":127300,"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":[17316],"tags":[24709,14645,24708,24711,24710,5,2552,6883],"class_list":["post-127298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mississippi","tag-blueberry","tag-governor","tag-house-bill-1027","tag-jill-ford","tag-mannsdale-upper-elementary-school","tag-mississippi","tag-representative","tag-tate-reeves"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/blueberry.jpg?fit=850%2C680&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127298","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=127298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}