{"id":128982,"date":"2023-05-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=128982"},"modified":"2023-05-25T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T17:19:20","slug":"john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-willie-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-willie-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cofield\u2019s Photo of the Week: \u201cWillie Wallace\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As to Willie Wallace<\/strong>, there is only a handful like him. Some businesses are eclipsed by their owners.\u00a0The Hoka<\/strong> was great, but Ron<\/strong> was a monument to the town. Square Books<\/strong> means much to\u00a0Oxford,\u00a0but it revolves around Richard<\/strong>. Howard <\/strong>was much bigger than Duvall\u2019s<\/strong>. Local Color<\/strong> was really cool,\u00a0but Willie was its character.\u00a0And among that handful, there is the subset of folks who are so cool they are beyond reproach.\u00a0We realized some decades ago that this businessman and his store were a part of the foundation upon\u00a0which we build our unique Oxford <\/strong>myth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Willie Wallace in his element. Photograph by Georgia Huddleston<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As to Willie Wallace, there is only a handful like him. Some businesses are eclipsed by their owners.\u00a0The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123475,"featured_media":128983,"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":[25508,25509,4683,3538,15050,25507,15425,36,5,4,4515,1409,4685,602,4684,2290],"class_list":["post-128982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-cofield","tag-duvalls","tag-georgia-huddleston","tag-hoka","tag-hoka-theatre","tag-hoka-theatre-and-moonlight-cafe","tag-howard-duvall","tag-john-cofield","tag-local-color","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-richard-howorth","tag-ron-shapiro","tag-ronzo","tag-square-books","tag-the-hoka","tag-willie-wallace"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-28-JohnCofield-POTW-WillieWallace.jpg?fit=1066%2C710&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128982","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=128982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}