{"id":24497,"date":"2021-01-11T07:44:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T13:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24497"},"modified":"2021-01-11T07:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T13:44:30","slug":"monday-update-135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/11\/monday-update-135\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The County Commission votes today on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/metro\/article\/19206\/county-commission-lee-harris-relief-fund-restaurant-workers\">a $2.5 million fund<\/a> to support restaurant workers while their hours and capacity are reduced by COVID-19 regulations. The fund will provide for $1000 grants to go to 2500 workers &#8211; the $1000 amount is described as &#8220;the equivalent of what most of the workers make in the local restaurant industry per two-week pay period.&#8221; But the Safer at Home order and the 25% capacity restrictions last for a four-week period.<\/p>\n<p>To make it personal, read <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/opinion\/article\/19215\/restaurant-workers-want-relief-payments\">this letter to the editor<\/a> by workers at a dozen Shelby County restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>StyleBlueprint has a profile of <a href=\"https:\/\/styleblueprint.com\/memphis\/everyday\/jobeth-graves-grecian-gourmet-taverna\/\">JoBeth Graves<\/a> of South Main&#8217;s Grecian Gourmet.<\/p>\n<p>From Showbiz Cheat Sheet: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheatsheet.com\/entertainment\/ann-margret-once-described-her-affair-with-elvis-presley-as-a-force-we-couldnt-control.html\/\">Ann-Margret describes the affair she once had with Elvis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningbrew.com\/daily\/r?kid=b392e100\">Morning Brew<\/a> newsletter: <a href=\"https:\/\/recipe-search.typesense.org\/?r[query]=p\">Search engine with 2 million recipes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a wine dinner tonight at Catherine &amp; Mary&#8217;s. Deets pasted from Instagram:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"                     Igw0E     IwRSH      eGOV_         _4EzTm                                       ItkAi                                                                       \"><span class=\"Jv7Aj mArmR MqpiF  \"><a class=\"sqdOP yWX7d     _8A5w5   ZIAjV \" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/catherine_marys\/\">catherine_marys<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"\" title=\"Edited\">Join us for the first Enjoy AM wine dinner of 2021!<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f4c5; Monday, January 11 at Catherine &amp; Mary&#8217;s<br \/>\n&#x1f377; Welcoming glass served 6:00pm-6:30pm.<br \/>\n&#x1f35d; Dinner starts at 6:30pm. Enjoy four courses with wine pairings selected by Ryan Radish for $75\/person + tax and tip.<br \/>\n&#x1f377; Joe&#8217;s Wine &amp; Liquor will be present to take wine orders at 15% off or purchase 6 or more bottles with a wine club membership.<br \/>\n&#x1f1ee;&#x1f1f9;: theme: Trentino-Alto Adige<\/p>\n<p>Call (901)254-8600 or email agrant@enjoyam.com to reserve your space.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this Monday that&#8217;s rather slow on news. Watching the radar. It&#8217;s snowing in North Mississippi. I wish some of that snow would find its way up here. 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The fund will provide for $1000 grants to go to 2500 workers &#8211; the $1000 amount is described as &#8220;the equivalent of what most of the workers make in the local &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/11\/monday-update-135\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday 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\/24497"}],"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=24497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24498,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24497\/revisions\/24498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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