{"id":41252,"date":"2017-08-20T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=41252"},"modified":"2017-08-20T12:11:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T18:11:39","slug":"oxford-community-market-hosting-1st-annual-celebrity-watermelon-seed-spitting-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-community-market-hosting-1st-annual-celebrity-watermelon-seed-spitting-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Community Market Hosting 1st Annual Celebrity Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest August 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Who will prevail in <strong>Oxford Community Market<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>1st Annual Celebrity Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest <\/strong>pm August 22 at 5 pm? The fierce Local Politicos will face off against the formidable Oxford Literati to see who can spit the farthest and raise the most money to support Oxford Community Market&#8217;s <strong>Oh, SNAP!<\/strong> <strong>Outreach Program<\/strong>. \u00a0Judging the event will be Oxford&#8217;s favorite townie, <strong>Ron Shapiro<\/strong>. OXCM supporters can contribute to their favorite team at the event or online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givegab.com\/campaigns\/oxcm-celebrity-watermelon-seed-spitting-contest\">here<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">.\u00a0<\/span>Your donation is your vote!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Contestants: <strong>Randy Wadkins<\/strong>, <strong>Kevin Frye<\/strong>,<strong> Cristen Hemmins<\/strong>, <strong>The Human Lung<\/strong>, <strong>Beth Ann Fennelly<\/strong>,<strong> Lisa Howorth<\/strong>, <strong>Sarah Frances Hardy<\/strong>, and<strong> Ace Atkins.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Want to get in on the competition? Anyone can spit for a $5 donation!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Donors will enjoy a<strong> Market Happy Hour<\/strong> sponsored by <strong>Main Event<\/strong>, <strong>Artist Vodka<\/strong>, <strong>Luke Fisher Music<\/strong>, and <strong>Abners<\/strong>!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Contact <strong>Betsy<\/strong> at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:oxcmkt@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oxcmkt@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0or 662-912-OKRA to participate.\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>Who will prevail in Oxford Community Market&#8216;s 1st Annual Celebrity Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest pm August 22 at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":38910,"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":[8428],"tags":[10825,8298,9413,3602,10826,7388,10830,7493,10824,717,10823,10827,2339,10829,10832,10828,10831],"class_list":["post-41252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-event","tag-abners","tag-ace-atkins","tag-artist-vodka","tag-beth-ann-fennelly","tag-celebrity-water-seed-spitting-contest","tag-cristen-hemmins","tag-kevin-frye","tag-lisa-howorth","tag-luke-fisher-music","tag-main-event","tag-market-happy-hour","tag-oh","tag-oxford-city-market","tag-randy-wadkins","tag-sarah-frances-hardy","tag-snap-outreach-program","tag-the-human-lung"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-4-12-oxcm.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41252","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=41252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}