{"id":14170,"date":"2014-06-13T13:12:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T18:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=14170"},"modified":"2014-06-13T13:13:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T18:13:35","slug":"you-might-be-a-local-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/you-might-be-a-local-if\/","title":{"rendered":"“You Might Be a LOCAL If…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some folks are born into being a \u201clocal\u201d \u2018round these parts. Others have to work for years to be referred to by townsfolk as fellow locals. There are no set criteria, but if you find yourself checking off more than a few of the following, chances are you have attained \u201clocal\u201d status. Read on!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2022 Every Oxford bar is kind of like Cheers: there\u2019s almost always someone there who knows your name.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You know how peaceful Oxford can be a few weeks out of the year, because this is your home year-round.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You know what a \u201cSquare Rat\u201d is.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You\u2019ve ever been called a \u201cSquare Rat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You know all the unique names for our Chevrons and other convenience stores.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You need no directions to get exactly where you want to go out at Sardis.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You just call it \u201cSardis\u201d and omit \u201cLake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You ever ordered from Munchie Mobile.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You\u2019ve become a real Ole Miss fan just from living here.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You\u2019ve been to more than a half-dozen Cooters shows.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You refuse to \u201ccheat\u201d on Willie at Local Color.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You supported all the locations\/incarnations of Two Stick.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You got your Hash name running in Oxford.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You know who Ronzo, Jamo, and Chico are. Bonus point for also knowing TLV Q&A mainstays Cambino and Carter Wilkes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You remember partying in the streets when Double Decker was still truly awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 You\u2019ve been here four years since your four-plus years of school at Ole Miss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some folks are born into being a \u201clocal\u201d \u2018round these parts. Others have to work for years to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":14173,"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":[228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/LocalFeat.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}