{"id":306,"date":"2012-01-26T22:28:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T22:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=306"},"modified":"2012-01-26T22:28:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T22:28:51","slug":"10-great-things-about-being-back-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/10-great-things-about-being-back-in-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Great Things About Being Back in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 Great Things About Being Back in Mississippi<\/h1>\n

by JoLynn Wells – from The Local Voice #148<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n1. Rain instead of snow.
\n2. A landscape of steep beautiful hills and waterfalls of kudzu populated by people sweet as pecan pie.
\n3. Dancing to live music, sometimes in the middle of the street.
\n4. The slow easy way of speaking down here that sounds so soft on the ears.
\n5. \u201cSometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name\u2026\u201d and for me that sure ain\u2019t Cheers in Boston.
\n6. Grits & Greens, black-eyed peas & cornbread, and a belly full of luck & money on New Years\u2019 Day.
\n7. Hearing on the radio in their entirety first… \u201cMama, I\u2019m Coming Home\u201d by Ozzy Osbourne followed by the Doobie Brothers\u2019 \u201cBlack Water.\u201d Mississippi moon, won\u2019t you keep on shining on me?
\n8. The velvet ditch wins over a broken glass littered gutter every time.
\n9. Fried chicken from the gas station.
\n10. Longer, brighter days remind me that I too can be a ray of sunshine, spreading light, warmth and happiness wherever I go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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