{"id":75878,"date":"2019-05-08T19:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T01:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=75878"},"modified":"2019-05-08T19:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T01:34:05","slug":"football-and-murder-are-themes-for-local-author-michael-henrys-new-novel-5-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/football-and-murder-are-themes-for-local-author-michael-henrys-new-novel-5-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Football and Murder Are Themes for Local Author Michael Henry&#8217;s New Novel &#8220;5 Star&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book signing and reading event is at Off Square Books Thursday, May 9 at 5:30 pm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelhenryauthor.com\/uploads\/5\/9\/9\/2\/59927593\/7852998.png?resize=292%2C401\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"401\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>El Ray, a 5-star Ole Miss quarterback recruit, is murdered on an unauthorized weekend visit, triggering a vindictive NCAA investigation eager to pin the blame on the university, and sending former D.A. Willie Mitchell Banks into a deadly drugs-for-sex underworld in rural Mississippi where Willie Mitchell avenges the brutal murder of his wife Susan while finding the high school quarterback&#8217;s killer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Natchitoches, Louisiana<\/strong>-native <strong>Michael Henry<\/strong> graduated from <strong>Tulane University<\/strong> and <strong>University of Virginia Law School<\/strong>. He practiced civil and criminal law, including sixteen years as a prosecutor, twelve of those as an elected District Attorney. Henry currently resides and writes in Oxford, Mississippi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book signing and reading event is at Off Square Books Thursday, May 9 at 5:30 pm El Ray,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":75882,"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":[14445,14446,14444,11282,448,602],"class_list":["post-75878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-5-star","tag-author-reading","tag-michael-henry","tag-murder","tag-off-square-books","tag-square-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-08-5-Star.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75878","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=75878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}