{"id":38874,"date":"2017-04-11T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=38874"},"modified":"2017-04-11T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:59:42","slug":"support-oxford-film-fest-by-eating-at-pita-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/support-oxford-film-fest-by-eating-at-pita-pit\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Oxford Film Fest by Eating at Pita Pit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Oxford Film Fest<\/strong> is partnered with <strong>Pita Pit<\/strong> through <strong>GroupRaise<\/strong> to help support the year-round events the festival plans to host. These events include touring the festival throughout the state, hosting workshops, as well as other educational courses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The company [GroupRaise] approached us and since all 3 restaurants currently working with them are among our favorites anyway, we decided to try it out,&#8221; said Melanie Addington, Executive Director of Oxford Film Fest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">To make your donation, simply go to pita between between 10 am\u201311:30 pm and place\u00a0your order. Mention Oxford Film Fest at the counter and follow the restaurant&#8217;s instructions to complete your support of Mississippi arts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If you can&#8217;t make it to Pita Pit today, there are two more of these partnerships already planned. <strong>Living Foods<\/strong> will partner up for May 10 from 2\u20137 pm with <strong>Casa Mexicana<\/strong> following suit on June 12 from 4\u20138 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;If they are successful, this is a great model for us to raise funds to help with our festival while also promoting our local restaurants and getting people to get out and be social,&#8221; said Addington. &#8220;We had previously done this on our own with The Growler and really enjoyed it so I hope to see more of these pop up!&#8221;\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=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" 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>Oxford Film Fest is partnered with Pita Pit through GroupRaise to help support the year-round events the festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":35641,"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":[321],"tags":[10210,1722,10211,3867,3399,10212,5665,10209,3,753],"class_list":["post-38874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-localfestivals","tag-casa-mexicana","tag-donation","tag-groupraise","tag-living-foods","tag-melanie-addington","tag-mississippi-arts","tag-oxford-film-fest","tag-pita-pit","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-06-Oxford-Film-Festival.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38874","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\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}