{"id":19373,"date":"2017-03-08T12:58:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=19373"},"modified":"2017-03-08T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:58:04","slug":"wednesday-update-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/08\/wednesday-update-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big night for live music tonight in Downtown Memphis. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedexforum.com\/events\/stevie-nicks-170308\">Stevie Nicks with special guests Pretenders<\/a> will perform at FedExForum tonight as part of Nicks&#8217; 24 Karat Gold Tour. 7 PM is the start time.<\/p>\n<p>Over at the Orpheum, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/events\/detail\/zztop\">ZZ Top<\/a> will play tonight. Austin Hanks will be the opening act. Show time is 8 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Going to the Grizzlies-Clippers game at FedExForum tomorrow night? Better get there early:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Got my Mike Conley socks. First 4,000 fans to Thursday night&#8217;s game vs Clippers get a pair. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xWdEhVDE3J\">pic.twitter.com\/xWdEhVDE3J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Roser (@Jon_Roser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jon_Roser\/status\/839201997534416898\">March 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We&#8217;re giving away Mike Conley socks to 1st 4,000 fans at the game tomorrow! Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mconley11\">@mconley11<\/a> seeing them for the 1st time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/77zEJnSuXL\">pic.twitter.com\/77zEJnSuXL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Memphis Grizzlies (@memgrizz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memgrizz\/status\/839501007587438593\">March 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milb.com\/content\/page.jsp?ymd=20100318&amp;content_id=8830642&amp;sid=t235&amp;vkey=schedule\">Downloadable 2017 Memphis Redbirds schedules<\/a> are now available for Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar and Android devices, and iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary Memphis wrestling TV host Lance Russell is now on Twitter. Follow him at @MemphisLance.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown Yoga is offering a class called Flex Your Mind with Danny Brewington Saturday, April 22 from noon to 2. Here is the class description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You think you can&#8217;t meditate? You must be too busy? Don&#8217;t have the time? Your mind is too wild and chaotic? You can&#8217;t sit still? This workshop will eliminate your excuses and fears that meditation is difficult. Through a few simple exercises you will increase your awareness and optimize your brain&#8217;s performance. Ultimately, you&#8217;ll discover meditation is the easiest thing in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of you on the fence about attending this kind of class, I&#8217;ll share my own personal experience. The second semester of my senior year in college, I took a course called Eastern Psychology mainly because it was a rare 2-hour credit class and I needed two more hours. The class, taught by the late Dr. Herb Smith, turned out to be one of the best classes I ever took. I learned about different forms of meditation and about letting go of both attachment and aversion to more clearly experience the self. I would strongly recommend meditation work if you think it is something that might benefit you. The meditation class at Downtown Yoga on April 22 has an early bird fee of $30 until April 15, $40 after that.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post has an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/food\/immigrants-bring-new-touches-to-american-barbecue-just-like-they-always-have\/2017\/03\/06\/b5e1fe84-fec1-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html?utm_term=.d4ffae1c5fa1\">the touches immigrants bring to BBQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The weather may affect the Beale Street St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade on Saturday. <a href=\"http:\/\/memphisweather.net\/forecast.shtml\">The MemphisWeather.net forecast<\/a> is calling for a &#8220;much colder day&#8221; with a high only in the upper 40s and a 70% chance of rain. I&#8217;m even seeing some talk of below-freezing temperatures and a possible wintry mix on Twitter, but at this point I&#8217;m going to chalk it up to TV weatherpeople trying to drive up viewership.<\/p>\n<p>The CA has a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/money\/2017\/03\/08\/edge-districts-latest-public-art-installation-all-shimmery\/98713632\/\">Cat Pena&#8217;s art installation<\/a> at Monroe and Marshall, recalling the days when The Edge was home to automotive dealerships and repair shops. There will be a public celebration of the new art installation tomorrow from 4 to 6 PM.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be out at the Silly Goose for happy hour most likely. Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big night for live music tonight in Downtown Memphis. Stevie Nicks with special guests Pretenders will perform at FedExForum tonight as part of Nicks&#8217; 24 Karat Gold Tour. 7 PM is the start time. Over at the Orpheum, ZZ Top will play tonight. Austin Hanks will be the opening act. Show time is 8 PM. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/08\/wednesday-update-27\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday 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\/19373"}],"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=19373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19374,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19373\/revisions\/19374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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