{"id":3042,"date":"2012-08-20T15:23:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2012-08-23T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:50:24","slug":"know-your-bartender-ivy-mclellan-from-tlv-162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/know-your-bartender-ivy-mclellan-from-tlv-162\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Bartender: Ivy McLellan of Bour\u00e9 in Oxford, Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Know Your Bartender<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Name:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ivy McLellan<\/span><\/p>\n

Bar where you work and your shifts:<\/span><\/span> Bour\u00e9 upstairs\u2013Tuesday, Saturday, and random other days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where are you from, and how long have you lived in Oxford?<\/span><\/span> I claim Oxford\u2014went to high school here.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"In your experience, what is the most common reason to have a drink?<\/span> Social ineptitude. Boredom. It\u2019s fun.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favorite drink?<\/span> Gin, good beer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where\u2019s your favorite spot to sip in Oxford?<\/span> Bour\u00e9 (Boom Boom Room), Ajax.<\/span><\/p>\n

Early alcohol experience:<\/span> A friend\u2019s grandfather\u2019s gold label Jack. Driving without a license the wrong way down Main Street in Greenwood, Mississippi at 3 am.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Most famous customer you\u2019ve served:<\/span> Lunch Money Swagg Guild, Patrick Willis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who would you most like to have a drink with?<\/span> Hunter S. Thompson<\/span><\/p>\n

What have you been listening to so far this year?<\/span> Dub-step and other electronic stuff. Diplo\u2014Express Yourself<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What band could your ears not live without?<\/span> Tribe Called Quest\u2026still the best.<\/span><\/p>\n

Favorite sport & team:<\/span> N.O. Saints\u2026Who Dat! And Milwaukee Brewers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"What mascot would you have picked for Ole Miss?<\/span> Akbar<\/span><\/p>\n

Read any good books lately?<\/span> Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> (book on tape read by Fran Drescher)<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you like best about living here?<\/span> The people.<\/span><\/p>\n

What would you like to see change in Oxford?<\/span> Better public transportation after the bars\u2026more parking for the University and the Square\u2026alcohol on Sunday\u2026later last call.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s the funniest thing you\u2019ve seen in your bar lately?<\/span> High heels + vodka water = fail on the regular.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where would you be if you weren\u2019t behind a bar?<\/span> Building my fembot. Looking for gold. Wearing trinkets. Club sandwiches, not seals\u2026not really an activity. Tweaking my flying machine. Space piracy. Lunch Money-ing fools. Hood rat shit with my friends.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Know Your Bartender Name: Ivy McLellan Bar where you work and your shifts: Bour\u00e9 upstairs\u2013Tuesday, Saturday, and random<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"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":[56,307],"tags":[637,638,541,639],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bartenders","category-local-people","tag-admiral-ackbar","tag-akbar","tag-know-your-bartender","tag-lunch-moneyin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","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=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}