{"id":128324,"date":"2023-04-26T13:25:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T18:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=128324"},"modified":"2023-04-26T13:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T18:25:33","slug":"john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-mississippi-national-guard-armory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-mississippi-national-guard-armory\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cofield\u2019s Photo of the Week: \u201cMississippi National Guard Armory\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There were drills and meetings for the guardsman for sure. But add to that the memories of Cub Scout pinewood derbies and <strong>Boy Scout<\/strong> jamborees, of wrestling matches, and flea markets, voting booths and victory dances, fundraisers, and frat fight nights, dance classes, and driver&#8217;s tests, tool shows, and silent auctions, Andy Waller&#8217;s red bands and rice, to egg hunts at Easter, and Van East&#8217;s memory of, &#8220;Slow dancing with my sweetie at the Shiners New Year&#8217;s Eve dance and softly singing, &#8216;The Nearness of You&#8217; in her ear.&#8221;<\/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\/2023\/04\/2022-04-26-JohnCofield-POTW-Armory.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2022-04-26-JohnCofield-POTW-Armory.jpg?resize=640%2C735\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2022-04-26-JohnCofield-POTW-Armory.jpg?w=649&amp;ssl=1 649w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2022-04-26-JohnCofield-POTW-Armory.jpg?resize=261%2C300&amp;ssl=1 261w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photograph by Dennis Bullard.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were drills and meetings for the guardsman for sure. But add to that the memories of Cub<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123475,"featured_media":128325,"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":[23706],"tags":[8059,24884,15425,5,25236,11011,4,23996],"class_list":["post-128324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-cofield","tag-armory","tag-boy-scout","tag-john-cofield","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-national-guard-armory","tag-old-armory-pavilion","tag-oxford","tag-photo-of-the-week"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2022-04-26-JohnCofield-POTW-Armory.jpg?fit=649%2C745&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128324","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\/123475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}