{"id":149337,"date":"2025-05-19T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=149337"},"modified":"2025-05-19T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:00:16","slug":"delta-blues-museum-welcomes-military-families-as-a-blue-star-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/delta-blues-museum-welcomes-military-families-as-a-blue-star-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Blues Museum Welcomes Military Families as a Blue Star Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now in its 11th year as a participating partner,\u00a0<strong>Delta Blues Museum<\/strong> is again a member of the <strong>Blue Star Museum<\/strong> program,\u00a0benefitting active duty military and their families.\u00a0From <strong>Armed Forces Day<\/strong> on May 17, 2025, through <strong>Labor Day<\/strong>, the Museum will offer free admission to those currently serving and up to five members of their family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Museum Director <strong>Shelley Ritter<\/strong> looks forward to welcoming Blue Star military families once again this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our Blue Star partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts continues to be an important part of our summer programming, as a way for us to honor those who serve our country,&#8221;\u00a0Ritter states, adding, &#8220;Museum reservations can be made\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qspysbcab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001XrJ3Zt1ASa9COp0QlUCJPFPUu1D67IlhSxQXvyj5eqMg4t_iHEJ8X9CycJ9Gu4If5phpBhxuF3lyeajHzAJlksqeb60ILJ2CZmEqs_MurX8zA7zK1hLbw52UZCcPA6aAOrBS1Oyn-IMmcGgJ_S_PNfs92robJDF19c_KFsrUiHTOLskpP28Qbw==&amp;c=YHxH6ORFLJrLXHv_Oq5k8p3pIU3B5P0KRIWBCes-CZndTNY8_OsjNA==&amp;ch=K-QRSvqH58CQvAZMUpWcgWZ8KKPOA2BkRsZjdAM4i6Hw2EgNZaEoQQ==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online<\/a>, and walk-ups are always welcome.&#8221;<\/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\/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>Now in its 11th year as a participating partner,\u00a0Delta Blues Museum is again a member of the Blue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":13781,"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":[17331],"tags":[31895,25523,3470,1410,3479,5,1411],"class_list":["post-149337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museums","tag-armed-forces-day","tag-blue-star-museum","tag-clarksdale","tag-delta-blues-museum","tag-labor-day","tag-mississippi","tag-shelley-ritter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BlueStarMuseums.jpg?fit=800%2C407&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149337","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=149337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149456,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149337\/revisions\/149456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}