{"id":15921,"date":"2015-02-02T17:27:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T23:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=15921"},"modified":"2015-02-02T17:27:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T23:27:02","slug":"big-brown-rodent-that-may-or-may-not-see-its-shadow-day-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/02\/big-brown-rodent-that-may-or-may-not-see-its-shadow-day-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brown Rodent That May Or May Not See Its Shadow Day update"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15923\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15923\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Photo-Feb-01-8-10-12-PM1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15923\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Photo-Feb-01-8-10-12-PM1.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"For the second straight year, Colin from the Blind Bear won a shame bet on the NFC championship game. Here's a pic of Joe in a tutu rooting for the Seahawks yesterday.\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Photo-Feb-01-8-10-12-PM1.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Photo-Feb-01-8-10-12-PM1.jpg?resize=375%2C500 375w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Photo-Feb-01-8-10-12-PM1.jpg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the second straight year, Colin from the Blind Bear won a shame bet on the NFC championship game. Here&#8217;s a pic of Joe in a tutu rooting for the Seahawks yesterday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is awesome: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirotv.com\/ap\/ap\/top-news\/jimmy-the-groundhog-turns-on-wisconsin-mayor\/nj3PM\/\">Jimmy the groundhog bites the mayor of Sun Prarie, Wisconsin.<\/a> Stupid mayor. Enjoy those rabies shots you&#8217;ve got coming!<\/p>\n<p>From the Onion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/depressed-groundhog-sees-shadow-of-rodent-he-once,31129\/\">Depressed groundhog sees the shadow of the rodent he once was<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capriccio Grille in the Peabody is doing a &#8220;Lion King&#8221; pre-theatre dinner tomorrow through March 1 from 5 PM to 7 PM. The menu features upscale cuisine from the African continent, served prior to the beginning of the shows at the Orpheum. You can view the menu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peabodymemphis.com\/egallery\/upload\/Peabody%20Hotel%20Group\/Peabody%20Memphis\/Files\/Capriccio%20-%202015%20Lion%20King%20Pre%20Theatre.pdf\">here<\/a>. $40 per person.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/memphis\/news\/2015\/02\/02\/bass-pro-draws-crowd-to-job-fair.html\">Several hundred people showed up<\/a> for the first day of Bass Pro&#8217;s three-day job fair.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupon.com\/deals\/memphis-magazine-1-4\">Groupon<\/a> going on for Memphis Magazine subscriptions. You can get 50% off for one, two, or three years.<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s South Main Association meeting will be next Tuesday, February 10 at 6 PM, It will be at the new Rizzo&#8217;s Diner at the corner of South Main and Butler. Historian Jimmy Ogle will be the speaker, talking about the history behind the walls of South Main buildings. Rizzo&#8217;s will provide appetizers and there will he happy hour drink prices. Free for SMA members, $10 for non-members.<\/p>\n<p>Artists are wanted to paint the kiosks on Main Street. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtownmemphiscommission.com\/news\/artists-wanted-main-street-kiosks-make-over-project\">Details here.<\/a> You have until Tuesday, February 17 to apply.<\/p>\n<p>FiveThirtyEight has <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/significant-digits-for-monday-feb-2-2015\/\">a Super Bowl version of Significant Digits<\/a> that is pretty interesting.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the Grizzlies Live pre-game show on Saturday night, you missed a special guest: THE NAIT&#8217;CHA BOY was stylin&#8217; and profilin&#8217;. However, the show is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QudQOd1TgWk\">on YouTube<\/a> if you want to catch Ric Flair&#8217;s appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry there was no post on my lunchtime break. We had construction people in the office re-configuring cubicles and there was so much banging around and noise that I couldn&#8217;t hear myself think. Better late than never I guess. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is awesome: Jimmy the groundhog bites the mayor of Sun Prarie, Wisconsin. Stupid mayor. Enjoy those rabies shots you&#8217;ve got coming! From the Onion: Depressed groundhog sees the shadow of the rodent he once was Capriccio Grille in the Peabody is doing a &#8220;Lion King&#8221; pre-theatre dinner tomorrow through March 1 from 5 PM &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/02\/big-brown-rodent-that-may-or-may-not-see-its-shadow-day-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Brown Rodent That May Or May Not See Its Shadow Day update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15924,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions\/15924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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