{"id":139719,"date":"2024-05-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=139719"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:15:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T22:15:36","slug":"john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-neilsons-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-neilsons-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cofield\u2019s Photo of the Week: \u201cNeilson\u2019s Shoes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Neilson\u2019s<\/strong> has anchored The Square<\/strong> these many decades. It is older than any business in Oxford<\/strong>, and indeed the entire South<\/strong>. It was the late 1830s when W. S. Neilson<\/strong> rolled into the fledgling town with two ox-wagons loaded with goods, and in 1839, started his store. Neilson prospered during his first two decades as The Square took shape. Then came the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Getting fitted for Sunday shoes at Neilson\u2019s is an Oxford experience remembered by many. Photo by Martin Dain. \u00a9 The Martin J. Dain Collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Neilson\u2019s has anchored The Square these many decades. It is older than any business in Oxford, and indeed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123475,"featured_media":139720,"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":[28839,28840,5,4307,28838,4,23996,28841],"class_list":["post-139719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-and-in-1839","tag-and-indeed-the-entire-south-it-was-the-late-1830s-when-w-s-neilson-rolled-into-the-fledgling-town-with-two-ox-wagons-loaded-with-goods","tag-mississippi","tag-neilsons","tag-neilsons-has-anchored-the-square-these-many-decades-it-is-older-than-any-business-in-oxford","tag-oxford","tag-photo-of-the-week","tag-w-s-neilson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024-05-29-JohnCofield-POTW-Neilsons.jpg?fit=1680%2C1088&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139719","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=139719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139721,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139719\/revisions\/139721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}