{"id":20540,"date":"2018-01-25T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=20540"},"modified":"2018-01-25T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:20:20","slug":"thursday-update-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/25\/thursday-update-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best pieces of swag of the season will be handed out tomorrow night at FedExForum. First 5000 fans through the door get a Marc Gasol Million Dollar Strut bobblehead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Marc bobblestrut joins me for show today. With real action! First 5000 Friday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nhv8iumBrd\">pic.twitter.com\/Nhv8iumBrd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geoff Calkins (@geoff_calkins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geoff_calkins\/status\/956185138043506690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In other Grizzlies news, Dillon Brooks has been named to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/amp\/league\/allstar\/2018\/events\/rising-stars\">Rising Stars Challenge<\/a> that happens during All-Star Weekend. The challenge involves up-and-coming talent in their first or second year in the NBA, and pits 10 American players vs. 10 world players. Being from Ontario, Brooks will play for the &#8220;world&#8221; team. Wow&#8230; rare situation where I think I&#8217;m going to have to root against my own country for one night.<\/p>\n<p>Terribly sorry to hear about <a href=\"http:\/\/wreg.com\/2018\/01\/24\/closing-of-jubilee-schools-to-misplace-hundreds-of-low-income-students\/\">the closing of Memphis Jubilee Schools<\/a>, which will displace about 1500 low-income students who were getting a first-class education. I have friends involved in Jubilee and they have shared with me what a wonderful thing it is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Segwaymemphis.com\">Segway Memphis<\/a> has a heck of a deal this Friday-Sunday: A 1-hour ride and scavenger hunt for only $20. Grand prize for the hunt is a 30&#8243; x 44&#8243; Canvas Wrap valued at $750. Call 901-497-5200 to make a reservation. Segway Memphis is located at 136 G.E. Patterson.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown Yoga is offering a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtownyogamemphis.com\/workshops\/foundationsofiyengaryoga\">Foundations of Iyengar<\/a> workshop Friday-Saturday, February 23-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/NewsBlog\/archives\/2018\/01\/24\/council-recap-no-booze-on-main-mlgw-rates-and-deannexation\">No booze on Main:<\/a> After hearing from stakeholders, Councilman Martavius Jones withdrew his proposed amendment that would allow open containers Downtown. I agree this is the right move. Alcohol is already plenty accessible down here.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis Greenspace has announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/news\/government\/city\/2018\/01\/25\/greenspace-unveils-plan-memphis-parks-post-confederate-statues\/1064820001\/\">its plan to improve two parks<\/a> in or near Downtown following the removal of Confederate statues.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Food Truck Thursday in Court Square. May I suggest you stop by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RAWKnGrub\/\">RAWK&#8217;n Grub<\/a> food truck for lunch? Their food is delicious and Chef Steph has been a great friend to me as I have seen my way through a tough time recently. By the way, I&#8217;m going to do a second post, a personal one, here in a bit.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been hearing about Special Counsel Mueller interviewing Trump&#8217;s inner circle and requesting an interview with Trump himself, and you&#8217;re curious what&#8217;s really going on, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeaPainUSA\/status\/956231678158045184\">Tea Pain has an excellent Twitter thread<\/a>. Mueller is going after Team Trump for espionage and money laundering, but the easiest offense to prove &#8211; and the most impeachable &#8211; is obstruction of justice. It&#8217;s the quickest path to getting Trump out of power and out of office, ending the immediate threat to democracy. Once he&#8217;s just a regular citizen, he can much more easily be prosecuted for the other charges, most likely at the state level. I have read that New York Attorney General Schneiderman is pursuing a parallel case on the money-laundering front. By the way, I saw the best nickname for Trump ever yesterday on Twitter: &#8220;the orange shitgibbon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Personal post on its way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best pieces of swag of the season will be handed out tomorrow night at FedExForum. First 5000 fans through the door get a Marc Gasol Million Dollar Strut bobblehead. Marc bobblestrut joins me for show today. With real action! First 5000 Friday. pic.twitter.com\/Nhv8iumBrd \u2014 Geoff Calkins (@geoff_calkins) January 24, 2018 In other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/25\/thursday-update-59\/\" 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\/20540"}],"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=20540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20542,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20540\/revisions\/20542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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