{"id":78168,"date":"2019-07-31T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=78168"},"modified":"2019-07-31T12:14:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:14:47","slug":"visit-mpb-books-for-free-chance-to-win-coffee-with-nyt-bestselling-author-ace-atkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/visit-mpb-books-for-free-chance-to-win-coffee-with-nyt-bestselling-author-ace-atkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit MPB Books for Free Chance to Win Coffee  with NYT Bestselling Author Ace Atkins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To celebrate the recent launch of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mpbonline.org\/mpbbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">MPB Books<\/a>\u2014a new webpage dubbed \u201cA booklover\u2019s passport into the literary minds of some of the nation\u2019s finest authors\u201d\u2014<strong>Mississippi Public Broadcasting<\/strong> invites the public to enter a free\u00a0drawing for a chance to win coffee with\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author <strong>Ace Atkins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atkins, of Oxford, has been nominated for every major award in crime fiction, including The Edgar three times. He\u2019s a former newspaper reporter and SEC football player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lucky winner of this random drawing along with a guest will visit with Atkins over coffee in Oxford, a town known as \u201cthe literary center of the South.\u201d Discussions could include books, writing, even football.\u00a0Deadline to enter is August 30 via<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>MPB Books<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Book lovers should consider the content of\u00a0MPB Books\u00a0a treat. There they can watch and listen to exclusive literary programs from MPB\u2019s vast collection. Some of the Mississippi greats include <strong>Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Margaret Walker Alexander, Willie Morris, Angie Thomas, Jesmyn Ward<\/strong> and many more.<\/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>To celebrate the recent launch of\u00a0MPB Books\u2014a new webpage dubbed \u201cA booklover\u2019s passport into the literary minds of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":78169,"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":[307],"tags":[8298,3138,4895],"class_list":["post-78168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-people","tag-ace-atkins","tag-mississippi-public-broadcasting","tag-mpb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-07-31-Ace-Atkins-MPB.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78168","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=78168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}