{"id":163762,"date":"2026-06-25T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=163762"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:15:13","slug":"can-you-find-waldo-in-local-businesses-this-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/can-you-find-waldo-in-local-businesses-this-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Find Waldo in Local Businesses this July?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-8dfcff3f4b97d532a2a4cc9a9fbe1313\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><strong>Every summer, Square Books hosts popular scavenger hunt event to boost local economy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Celebrating its fourteenth anniversary in July 2026, <strong>Find Waldo Local<\/strong> has become a beloved summertime event in communities nationwide with hide-and-seek fun designed to encourage residents to patronize their local businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>There is no charge to participate, and the hunt lasts for the entire month of July.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re officially on a Waldo Watch! Everyone\u2019s favorite stripe-clad seek-and-find friend is making his way back to Oxford. Keep an eye out\u2014Waldo will waltz back onto the <strong>Oxford Square<\/strong> next week! Folks can pick up their Waldo &#8220;passports&#8221; and begin the hunt at <strong>Square Books Jr<\/strong>. starting Wednesday, July 1 and running through July 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-97d66e9b06a01687d6146370aa11416e\">\n<li><strong>Participating Business:<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Square Books Jr<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Square Books<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Off Square Books<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cat Daddy&#8217;s<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Daisy Gift Company<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fresh Ink<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gameday Apparel<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>I Just Have to Have It<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lilypad<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lulu&#8217;s<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Miss Behavin&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Neilson&#8217;s<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Olive Juice Gifts<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Olive Juice Kids<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oxford Creamer<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong> S&amp;J Custom Framing<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Something Southern<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tom Beckbe<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>University Sporting Goods<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Visit Oxford<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>XOXO Boutique<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>YaYa&#8217;s<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>Every summer, Square Books hosts popular scavenger hunt event to boost local economy Celebrating its fourteenth anniversary in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":163763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[190,19],"tags":[8777,6444,14906],"class_list":["post-163762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-business","category-local-news","tag-find-waldo-local","tag-oxford-square","tag-square-books-jr-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f543b9_b60da613de514bfd8bc372a620b0a533mv2.avif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163762","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=163762"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163862,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163762\/revisions\/163862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}