{"id":45874,"date":"2018-04-16T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=45874"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:50:14","slug":"ride-and-walk-for-the-veterans-in-oxford-mississippi-at-locals-restaurant-april-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ride-and-walk-for-the-veterans-in-oxford-mississippi-at-locals-restaurant-april-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride (and Walk) for the Veterans in Oxford, Mississippi at Local&#8217;s Restaurant April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ride (and Walk) for the Veterans<\/strong> is an annual fundraising event in<strong> Oxford<\/strong>, <strong>Mississippi<\/strong>, organized to improve the daily lives of the veterans in the <strong>Mississippi State Veterans Home<\/strong> in Oxford. All proceeds go directly to the veterans home. The organizers are looking for community support to help the veterans who have faithfully served their country. Many of them have no family nearby and rely on the support of our community to help improve their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45877\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/america-axe.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-45877 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/america-axe.jpg?resize=400%2C727\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"727\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the very patriotic item by Tomahawks by Vyper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In addition to the Ride and Walk in honor of the veterans,\u00a0<strong>Local&#8217;s Restaurant<\/strong>\u00a0will feature silent auctions and door prizes. Items up for auction range from an <strong>Amazon\u00a0Echo Spot<\/strong> to an incredibly patriotic tomahawk crafted by <strong>Tomahawks by Vyper<\/strong>. One lucky person will even take home a wheelbarrow full of spirits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Festivities kick off at noon on Saturday, April 21. Check out the event&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/193637984452784\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page<\/a> to stay updated and check out all the items being auctioned.\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>Ride (and Walk) for the Veterans is an annual fundraising event in Oxford, Mississippi, organized to improve the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":45876,"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":[12212,12214,783,12208,5,12211,642,4,2190,12210,5235,12213,12209,989],"class_list":["post-45874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-event","tag-deals-auto","tag-door-prizes","tag-free","tag-locals-restaurant","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-state-veterans-home","tag-ms","tag-oxford","tag-ride","tag-ride-and-walk-for-the-veterans","tag-silent-auction","tag-support-veterans","tag-veterans","tag-walk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-04-16-ride-and-walk.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45874","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=45874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}