{"id":40245,"date":"2017-06-19T15:11:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T21:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=40245"},"modified":"2017-06-19T15:11:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T21:11:21","slug":"the-thirsty-devil-wins-outstanding-new-business-at-mississippi-main-street-annual-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-thirsty-devil-wins-outstanding-new-business-at-mississippi-main-street-annual-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thirsty Devil Wins Outstanding New Business at Mississippi Main Street Annual Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheThirstyDevilTupelo\/\"><strong>The Thirsty Devil<\/strong><\/a>, one of <strong>Tupelo<\/strong>&#8216;s newest downtown spots, took home the award for <strong>Outstanding New Business<\/strong> at the 28th <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msmainstreet.com\/\">Mississippi Main Street<\/a> Annual Awards<\/strong>. With their rock and roll aesthetic and killer menu, it&#8217;s no wonder they walked away with the award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"m_-7515053020073524752m_3097192726416368442e2ma-style\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;This is the Mississippi Main Street Association\u2019s most important event of the year,&#8221; said <strong>Allison Beasley<\/strong>, MMSA President. &#8220;It gives us an opportunity to meet with and celebrate the local directors and investors throughout the state that are doing the hard work of making our downtown districts more competitive, successful and sustainable.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Elvis Presley Birthplace Trail<\/strong> took home the award for <strong>Outstanding Community Transformation<\/strong> and <strong>The Reed Family<\/strong> received a <strong>Main Street Hero<\/strong> honor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mississippi Main street Association is a program designed to reinvigorate the historic districts throughout the Magnolia State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"m_-7515053020073524752m_3097192726416368442e2ma-style\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We are thrilled to honor our economic development and preservation heroes in Mississippi&#8217;s downtowns,&#8221; Beasley said.\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>The Thirsty Devil, one of Tupelo&#8216;s newest downtown spots, took home the award for Outstanding New Business at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":40246,"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":[190],"tags":[10568,5,10569,642,3,9650,753,187],"class_list":["post-40245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-business","tag-main-street-association","tag-mississippi","tag-mmsa","tag-ms","tag-the-local-voice","tag-the-thirsty-devil","tag-tlv","tag-tupelo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-03-thirsty-devil.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40245","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=40245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}