{"id":25000,"date":"2015-06-02T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=25000"},"modified":"2015-06-05T11:52:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T16:52:47","slug":"bill-hancock-riding-with-the-blue-moth-today-at-off-square-books-5-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/bill-hancock-riding-with-the-blue-moth-today-at-off-square-books-5-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Hancock, &#8220;Riding with the Blue Moth&#8221; TODAY at Off Square Books (5 pm)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/6.2-Square-Books.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"456\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25002\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/6.2-Square-Books.jpg?resize=600%2C456\" alt=\"6.2-Square Books\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/6.2-Square-Books.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/6.2-Square-Books.jpg?resize=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>After the death of his son, Will, in the 2001 airplane crash that took the lives of nine additional members of the <strong>Oklahoma State<\/strong> basketball team and support staff, <strong>Bill Hancock<\/strong>\u2019s 2,747-mile journey from the Pacific to the Atlantic became more than just a distraction. It became a pilgrimage. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Bill Hancock was the first director of the NCAA Final Four, first director of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and the first director of the College Football Playoff.<br \/>\n<strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> football coach <strong>Hugh Freeze<\/strong> will give a special introduction to Hancock today.\u00a0<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><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the death of his son, Will, in the 2001 airplane crash that took the lives of nine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":25001,"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":[4934,2239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-local-literary-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/RidingBlueMothFEAT.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25000","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=25000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}