{"id":24471,"date":"2021-01-01T05:52:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T11:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24471"},"modified":"2021-01-01T05:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T11:52:19","slug":"friday-update-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/01\/friday-update-160\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Good ole West Virginny <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/sports\/west-virginia-rallies-to-beat-army-24-21-in-autozone-liberty-bowl\/\">came from behind<\/a> yesterday to beat Army in the Liberty Bowl, 24-21.<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi State beat Tulsa in the Armed Forces Bowl 28-26. Following the game there was a wild brawl between the two teams (fast-forward to about 1:30 in the video below):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WwY0GWVVvYY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2020 had one last surprise for Memphis last night: Grayson Allen left the game with <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/sports\/grizzlies-fall-to-celtics-grayson-allen-leaves-game-with-ankle-injury\/\">an ankle sprain<\/a> last night as the Grizzlies lost to Boston 128-107.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Tigers&#8217; basketball game at Temple scheduled for tomorrow <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/sports\/tigers-game-against-temple-postponed-due-to-covid-19\/\">has been postponed<\/a> due to COVID cases at Temple.<\/p>\n<p>Local 24 recently talked to South Main Sounds&#8217; Mark Parsell about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/article\/money\/business\/there-are-beale-street-blues-alright-but-not-the-kind-you-want-to-hear-or-see\/522-f41efa81-6220-45e7-8c6d-01c5b1f9c17c\">what 2020 has been like for musicians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/12\/03\/opinion\/covid-19-vaccine-timeline.html\">COVID vaccine calculator<\/a> that will predict where you are in line to get the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t hear too many gunshots at midnight where I live but I hear that the area around Front and MLK sounded like &#8220;a war zone&#8221; at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like I didn&#8217;t miss much by not tuning in to the COVID-19 press conference yesterday. @Local24Brad reports that they will look at the COVID numbers in Shelby County two weeks into Health Directive 16 and the Safer at Home order, but don&#8217;t expect any big changes. Two weeks would be approximately next Friday, which should be around the time we begin to see a Christmas surge.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Probably staying home for today, although if any Downtown restaurants post a blackeyed peas special for today I might venture out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! Good ole West Virginny came from behind yesterday to beat Army in the Liberty Bowl, 24-21. Mississippi State beat Tulsa in the Armed Forces Bowl 28-26. Following the game there was a wild brawl between the two teams (fast-forward to about 1:30 in the video below): 2020 had one last surprise for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/01\/friday-update-160\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday 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\/24471"}],"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=24471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24472,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24471\/revisions\/24472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->