{"id":132134,"date":"2023-09-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=132134"},"modified":"2023-09-09T16:09:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T21:09:16","slug":"john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-university-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-university-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cofield\u2019s Photo of the Week: \u201cUniversity Avenue\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the third volume of <\/em><strong>Oxford, Mississippi, the Cofield Collection<\/strong><em>, this photograph explains the directions\u00a0the book travels as so many <strong>Oxford <\/strong>memories are featured. Pre-orders now being taken at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/cofieldpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">cofieldpress.com<\/a>. Thank you, Oxford. \u2013 <strong>John\u00a0Cofield<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I did indeed walk down the middle of South Lamar and stood under the red light at University Avenue and smoked a cigarette, flipped the butt away, and walked back up to the statue. Not one car appeared from any direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the four parts that make up who we are, they meet up under the light here. Oxford is to my left, the green rolling hills of Lafayette County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Down through the small valley and up the other side to that far away gap between the trees lives a great set of Oxford memories, up on Rivers Hill.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photograph by Keith Gore Wiseman.<\/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\/09\/2023-09-09-JohnCofield-POTW-UniversityAvenue.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"914\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023-09-09-JohnCofield-POTW-UniversityAvenue.jpg?resize=592%2C914&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023-09-09-JohnCofield-POTW-UniversityAvenue.jpg?w=592&amp;ssl=1 592w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023-09-09-JohnCofield-POTW-UniversityAvenue.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\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>From the third volume of Oxford, Mississippi, the Cofield Collection, this photograph explains the directions\u00a0the book travels as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123475,"featured_media":132135,"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":[26584,15425,24113,256,5,4,26583,26585,4742,4299],"class_list":["post-132134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-cofield","tag-cofieldpress-com","tag-john-cofield","tag-keith-gore-wiseman","tag-lafayette-county","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-mississippi-the-cofield-collection","tag-rivers-hill","tag-south-lamar","tag-university-avenue"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023-09-09-JohnCofield-POTW-UniversityAvenue.jpg?fit=592%2C914&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132134","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=132134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}