{"id":20400,"date":"2017-12-14T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=20400"},"modified":"2017-12-14T12:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T18:46:47","slug":"thursday-update-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/14\/thursday-update-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is Star Wars Night at the Grizzlies, a 7 PM game vs. the Atlanta Hawks. In celebration of the release of <i>The Last Jedi<\/i>, the first 5000 fans through the gate will receive a Memphis Grizzlies lightsaber.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/ballet-memphis-nutcracker-2017\">Ballet Memphis&#8217; Nutcracker<\/a> plays four shows at the Orpheum tomorrow through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Second Edition, a pop-up bookstore at 9 N. Main, is open through tomorrow. Great chance to pick up a gift for a friend or a new read for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Ghost River celebrates its 10th birthday on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This NYE spend it with us as we celebrate 10 years of brewing! We&#8217;ll be recreating our first ever brewed beer: South Main Pale Ale. &#x1f37b; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TSPQ0BHBPc\">pic.twitter.com\/TSPQ0BHBPc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ghost River Brewing (@GhostRiverBrew) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhostRiverBrew\/status\/941002529260888065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting is that Ghost River (the brewery, not the taproom) opened on the same day as another great South Main business: Max&#8217;s Sports Bar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/dalai-lama\/id1271934030?mt=8\">Hello, Dalai!<\/a> The Dalai Lama has an iPhone app now.<\/p>\n<p>I played trivia with friends last night at the Blind Bear, and I was tasked with coming up with the team name. Team names based on current events are always a good strategy, and no event is more current than Roy Moore&#8217;s loss in the Alabama Senate race. So the name I wrote down was &#8220;See you later, alligator. After a while, pedophile.&#8221; It didn&#8217;t win but nevertheless I was pretty proud of it.<\/p>\n<p>Charvey Mac played after trivia, but I had this wild idea that if I went home early, I could get up at 5 and drive out to <a href=\"http:\/\/sunrise901.com\/\">Sunrise Memphis<\/a> for breakfast before work. What actually happened was, I woke up at 6:52. So no Charvey and no breakfast. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get insomnia one of these days and be up at 5.<\/p>\n<p>Politico speculates that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/12\/14\/paul-ryan-retire-speaker-ready-leave-washington-216103\">Paul Ryan may retire<\/a>, and will almost certainly step down as Speaker of the House, in 2018. Of course, he can&#8217;t say that publicly because it would hurt fundraising and his ability to get legislation passed. Don&#8217;t let the door hit your ass on the way out, Pauly!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Back tomorrow with more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is Star Wars Night at the Grizzlies, a 7 PM game vs. the Atlanta Hawks. In celebration of the release of The Last Jedi, the first 5000 fans through the gate will receive a Memphis Grizzlies lightsaber. Ballet Memphis&#8217; Nutcracker plays four shows at the Orpheum tomorrow through Sunday. Second Edition, a pop-up bookstore &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/14\/thursday-update-55\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday 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\/20400"}],"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=20400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20401,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400\/revisions\/20401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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