{"id":19936,"date":"2017-08-10T06:26:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T11:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=19936"},"modified":"2017-08-10T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T11:47:09","slug":"thursday-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/10\/thursday-update-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Made Brewing and 901 Comics will present a Game Night at Memphis Made&#8217;s taproom on Sunday, August 27 from 1 to 7 PM. There will be role-playing games, board games, and of course, beer. 901 Comics will have a pop-up shop for all your gaming needs. All levels are welcome and tables will be available for open game play. There will be a gaming workshop with character creation help, and single day campaigns for beginners. Keep up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/159519091285205\/\">Game Night&#8217;s Facebook event listing<\/a> for all the news about this event.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have named a species of prehistoric crocodile, said to be one of the nastiest sea creatures ever to roam the earth, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/498cdf83488e48b2a7dbb6d73c44b335\">after late Motorhead frontman Lemmy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/grizzlies\/news\/accepting-submissions-for-1718-season-pa-announcer-roles-170809\">The Grizzlies have two public address system announcer positions open<\/a> for 2017-18. One is for the Memphis Grizzlies and the other for the Memphis Hustle. To apply you need to submit a resume, YouTube link, and MP3 file attachment by August 25.<\/p>\n<p>From Bleacher Report: <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/2725893-rudy-gay-fires-back-at-tony-allens-origin-story-for-grit-and-grind\">Tony Allen finally revealed the origin of the now famous term Grit &amp; Grind.<\/a> It was to make fun of Rudy Gay for sitting out a game.<\/p>\n<p>Hillbilly Casino will provide the live music at tonight&#8217;s Peabody rooftop party. $10 to get in, ladies and hotel guests free before 7. Admission includes a buffet of BBQ sliders and BBQ nachos. If you&#8217;re in VIP you have a second buffet of Memphis ribs, cole slaw, BBQ spaghetti, and banana pudding cupcakes. Drink specials tonight are a Memphis Blues margarita and Firefly blackberry lemonade moonshine.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already told you about the special ticket that gets you an all-you-can-eat burger buffet tonight at the Redbirds, but there&#8217;s more going on than just that. DJ Epic, one of Memphis&#8217; top party DJs, will perform in the right field picnic area beginning at 6 PM. $5 left field bluff seating for college students with valid ID. It&#8217;s Thirsty Thursday with $2 select drafts around the park.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The most underrated story in Memphis:<\/p>\n<p>The Redbirds are 20 games ahead of their division. Yes&#8230;&#8230;20 whole games. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m6PSJI3RlZ\">pic.twitter.com\/m6PSJI3RlZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Devin Walker (@Devin_Walker5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Devin_Walker5\/status\/895325195400912898\">August 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Off to work. I already have enough remaining news to warrant a second post at lunchtime, so check back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Made Brewing and 901 Comics will present a Game Night at Memphis Made&#8217;s taproom on Sunday, August 27 from 1 to 7 PM. There will be role-playing games, board games, and of course, beer. 901 Comics will have a pop-up shop for all your gaming needs. All levels are welcome and tables will be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/10\/thursday-update-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday update #1&#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\/19936"}],"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=19936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19938,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19936\/revisions\/19938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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