{"id":135194,"date":"2023-12-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=135194"},"modified":"2023-12-06T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T22:08:49","slug":"john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-william-faulkner-nobel-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-william-faulkner-nobel-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cofield\u2019s Photo of the Week: \u201cWilliam Faulkner Nobel Laureate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our finest hour tolled some 4,700 miles from <strong>Lafayette County, Mississippi<\/strong>, as <strong>King Gustaf VI<\/strong> of <strong>Sweden<\/strong> presented the 1949 <strong>Nobel Prize in Literature<\/strong> to <strong>William Cuthbert Faulkner<\/strong>. But in the last blink of <strong>Jefferson<\/strong>\u2019s eye, <strong>Stockholm<\/strong> would now come to <strong>Oxford<\/strong>. And more than Grand John knew, or we could have imagined, here they would come.<\/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\/12\/2023-12-06-JohnCofield-POTW-FaulknerNobelPrize.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"324\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-06-JohnCofield-POTW-FaulknerNobelPrize.jpg?resize=324%2C439&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-135195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-06-JohnCofield-POTW-FaulknerNobelPrize.jpg?w=324&amp;ssl=1 324w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-06-JohnCofield-POTW-FaulknerNobelPrize.jpg?resize=221%2C300&amp;ssl=1 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">William Faulkner moments after becoming a Nobel Laureate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our finest hour tolled some 4,700 miles from Lafayette County, Mississippi, as King Gustaf VI of Sweden presented<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123475,"featured_media":135195,"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":[19],"tags":[27410,256,5,27409,24181,27412,4,10946,27411,27413,85],"class_list":["post-135194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-king-gustaf-vi","tag-lafayette-county","tag-mississippi","tag-nobel-laureate","tag-nobel-prize","tag-nobel-prize-in-literature","tag-oxford","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-william-cuthbert-faulkner","tag-william-faulkner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-06-JohnCofield-POTW-FaulknerNobelPrize.jpg?fit=324%2C439&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135194","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=135194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135197,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135194\/revisions\/135197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}