{"id":153808,"date":"2025-11-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=153808"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:58:08","slug":"john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-the-original-city-grocery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-the-original-city-grocery\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cofield\u2019s Photo of the Week:\u00a0\u201cThe Original City Grocery\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The original <strong>City Grocery<\/strong> in <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>, owned by the <strong>Fudge<\/strong> family. Today&#8217;s City Grocery restaurant lives there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19xx-CityGrocery.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19xx-CityGrocery-1024x762.jpg?resize=640%2C476&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19xx-CityGrocery.jpg?resize=1024%2C762&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19xx-CityGrocery.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19xx-CityGrocery.jpg?resize=768%2C572&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19xx-CityGrocery.jpg?resize=1536%2C1144&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19xx-CityGrocery.jpg?w=1954&amp;ssl=1 1954w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19xx-CityGrocery.jpg?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The original <strong>City Grocery<\/strong> in <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>, owned by the <strong>Fudge<\/strong> family. Today&#8217;s City Grocery restaurant lives there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original City Grocery in Oxford, Mississippi, owned by the Fudge family. Today&#8217;s City Grocery restaurant lives there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123475,"featured_media":153809,"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":[31,33192,33191,21739,5,4],"class_list":["post-153808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-cofield","tag-city-grocery","tag-fudge","tag-fudge-family","tag-fudgetown","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/19xx-CityGrocery.jpg?fit=1954%2C1455&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153808","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=153808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153810,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153808\/revisions\/153810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}