{"id":41068,"date":"2017-08-09T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=41068"},"modified":"2017-08-09T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T17:57:07","slug":"billy-reed-signing-messages-to-lelia-at-off-square-books-august-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/billy-reed-signing-messages-to-lelia-at-off-square-books-august-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Reed Signing Messages to Lelia at Off Square Books August 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Messages to Lelia<\/em> is a book of haiku and other poems by a poet based in <strong>Memphis<\/strong>, <strong>Tennessee<\/strong>. His poetry springs from wide-ranging experience connected with his family history and with local Southern cultures in <strong>Mississippi<\/strong> and West Tennessee. His poetry sparkles with life, deep-rooted as it is in the soil of the Mid-South. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Billy Reed is a salty saint, sprinkling light on dark paths in a laser-speared poetry that invites us all to dance, laugh, and pray. It will bless you if you let it.&#8221; \u2014<strong>John Kilzer<\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Billy Reed<\/strong> will be Signing <em>Messages to Lelia<\/em> at Off Square Books August 14 at 5 pm.\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>Messages to Lelia is a book of haiku and other poems by a poet based in Memphis, Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":41069,"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":[2239],"tags":[10769,10768,468,5,642,7133,4,602,3,753],"class_list":["post-41068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-author-signings","tag-billy-reed","tag-memphis","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-opd","tag-oxford","tag-square-books","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-08-Reed.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41068","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=41068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}