{"id":87950,"date":"2020-05-20T14:53:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=87950"},"modified":"2020-05-20T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:54:01","slug":"mississippi-governor-tate-reeves-tricked-into-saying-harry-azcrac-at-virtual-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-governor-tate-reeves-tricked-into-saying-harry-azcrac-at-virtual-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves Tricked into Saying &#8220;Harry Azcrac&#8221; at Virtual Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mississippi <\/strong>Governor <strong>Tate Reeves<\/strong> was duped into congratulating a curiously named student \u2014 &#8220;<strong>Harry Azcrac<\/strong>&#8221; \u2014 during a virtual graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThomasDeMartini\/status\/1261766931708874755\" target=\"_blank\">In the video<\/a>\u00a0streamed live on Facebook, Reeves sends his well wishes to <strong>Florence<\/strong> <strong>High School<\/strong>\u2019s valedictorian before running down the list of newly minted graduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHarry Azcrac,\u201d the Republican governor reads, before pausing in a sudden realization of what he\u2019s just done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prankster <strong>Thomas DeMartini<\/strong> took credit for the juvenile joke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Proud moment: I got Tate reeves to say the name Harry Azcrac on Facebook live. And yes I\u2019ve been laughing for about 25 minutes now<\/p>&mdash; Thomas DeMartini &#x1f378; (@ThomasDeMartini) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThomasDeMartini\/status\/1261758792234139649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProud moment: I got Tate reeves to say the name Harry Azcrac on Facebook live. And yes I\u2019ve been laughing for about 25 minutes now,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThomasDeMartini\/status\/1261758792234139649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DeMartini tweeted on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As news of the slip-up went viral, Reeves rolled with the punches and even offered up another classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Harry\u2019s submitter has a bright future as a Simpson\u2019s writer!<br><br>In 10 minutes we\u2019ll be honoring more graduates on Facebook Live. Maybe even Ben\u2014the pride of the Dover family. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Njw0GcNCXN\">https:\/\/t.co\/Njw0GcNCXN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tatereeves\/status\/1262863455289253889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHarry\u2019s submitter has a bright future as a Simpson\u2019s writer!\u201d\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tatereeves\/status\/1262863455289253889\" target=\"_blank\">he tweeted<\/a>. \u201cIn 10 minutes we\u2019ll be honoring more graduates on Facebook Live. Maybe even Ben\u2014the pride of the Dover family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><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\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-20-TateReeves-HarryAzcrac.jpg?resize=620%2C349\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-20-TateReeves-HarryAzcrac.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-20-TateReeves-HarryAzcrac.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves was duped into congratulating a curiously named student \u2014 &#8220;Harry Azcrac&#8221; \u2014 during a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":87952,"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":[19],"tags":[15280,14645,16358,16415,5,16416,6883,16419,16417,16418],"class_list":["post-87950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-florence","tag-governor","tag-governor-tate-reeves","tag-harry-azcrac","tag-mississippi","tag-prank","tag-tate-reeves","tag-thomas-demartini","tag-troll","tag-virtual-graduation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-20-TateReeves-HarryAzcrac.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87950","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=87950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}