{"id":16174,"date":"2014-09-17T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=16174"},"modified":"2014-09-17T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:03:14","slug":"16174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/16174\/","title":{"rendered":"Pontotoc, Mississippi Votes on Legalizing Beer and\/or Liquor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16176\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-14-legalizeliquor-crop.jpg?resize=247%2C300\" alt=\"2014-09-14-legalizeliquor-crop\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-14-legalizeliquor-crop.jpg?resize=247%2C300&amp;ssl=1 247w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-14-legalizeliquor-crop.jpg?w=523&amp;ssl=1 523w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/>Voters in Pontotoc, Mississippi took to the polls on Tuesday, September 16, 2014, to vote on a referendum\u00a0to legalize beer and\/or liquor sales in the town.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Unofficial results show 844 people voting for beer sales, and 792 voting against beer sales, while the results of the liquor referendum showed 829 voting against liquor sales and 825 voting for such sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1,479 people voted in the special referendum Tuesday, and 157 absentee ballots were cast as well. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The official results are still pending the outcome of 55 affidavit ballots, which will be counted on September 24. \u00a0<em><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\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Pontotoc, Mississippi took to the polls on Tuesday, September 16, 2014, to vote on a referendum\u00a0to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":16181,"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":[154],"tags":[663,4235,5,4126,241],"class_list":["post-16174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-elections","tag-beer","tag-liquor","tag-mississippi","tag-pontotoc","tag-vote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-16-Pontotoc-LiquorVote.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174","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=16174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}