{"id":49364,"date":"2018-10-24T16:14:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T22:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=49364"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:26:02","slug":"join-the-cake-walk-on-saturday-october-27-with-deborah-wiles-at-square-books-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/join-the-cake-walk-on-saturday-october-27-with-deborah-wiles-at-square-books-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the Cake Walk on Saturday, October 27 with Deborah Wiles at Square Books Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">Event begins at 3 pm, and a portion of all proceeds goes to the Lafayette County Literacy Council.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Join us for a cake walk and signing with our dear friend <strong>Deborah Wiles<\/strong>! Featuring a cake recipe inspired by our very own <strong>Leita Patton<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><i>A Long Line of Cakes<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0is the latest in Deborah&#8217;s series about Hallelujah County, Mississippi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sign up to bring a cake if you can! Please share this with others!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/10C044CAFAC29A3F94-lclc1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/10C044CAFAC29A3F94-lclc1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1538764341513000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGdHczVDD_FNRsMImdDABkDT-jaeQ\">https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/g<wbr \/>o\/10C044CAFAC29A3F94-lclc1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Emma Lane Cake has five brothers, four dogs, and a family that can&#8217;t stay put. The Cake family travels from place to place, setting up bakeries in communities that need them. Then, just when Emma feels settled in with new friends . . . they move again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Now the Cakes have come to Aurora County, and Emma has vowed that this time she is NOT going to get attached to ANYONE or ANYTHING. Why bother, if her father&#8217;s only going to uproot her again?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But fate has different plans. And so does Ruby Lavender, who is going to show Emma Lane Cake a thing or two about making friendship last.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Deborah Wiles is the author of the picture book\u00a0<em><strong>Freedom Summer<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>and three novels:\u00a0<em><strong>Love, Ruby Lavender<\/strong>; <strong>The Aurora County All-Stars<\/strong><\/em>;\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><em>Each Little Bird that Sings<\/em><\/strong>, a National Book Award finalist. She has vivid memories of ducking and covering under her school desk during air raid drills at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. She also sang in the Glee Club, was a champion speller, and hated Field Day. Deborah lives in Atlanta, Georgia.\u00a0\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>Event begins at 3 pm, and a portion of all proceeds goes to the Lafayette County Literacy Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":49442,"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":[13408,13405,13406,13407,603],"class_list":["post-49364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-a-long-line-of-cakes","tag-cake-walk","tag-deborah-wiles","tag-leita-patton","tag-square-books-jr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cake.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49364","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=49364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}