{"id":24500,"date":"2021-01-12T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24500"},"modified":"2021-01-12T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T12:22:08","slug":"tuesday-update-163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/12\/tuesday-update-163\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A historic building in the Pinch District <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/neighborhoodsdowntown\/article\/19238\/another-historic-pinch-building-threatened-this\">was heavily damaged<\/a> by fire Saturday. It appears a homeless person started a warming fire in the two-story structure at the southwest corner of N. Main and Overton. The damage was extensive and it&#8217;s unclear whether the building will be able to be saved.<\/p>\n<p>The County Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/metro\/article\/19241\/restaurant-workers-covid-relief-fund-county-commission\">approved the $2.5 million relief fund<\/a> that will award $1000 grants to restaurant and hospitality workers who have lost income due to the COVID restrictions. The vote was along party lines, 8 Democrats for, 5 Republicans against. The Republicans said they agreed with the principle of the proposal, but couldn&#8217;t see tapping the county&#8217;s general fund and favored eliminating COVID restrictions on that industry as a way to stimulate the economy.<\/p>\n<p>From the website DatingAdvice.com: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datingadvice.com\/for-men\/downtown-memphis-offers-plenty-of-romantic-date-options\">Downtown Memphis offers plenty of romantic date options<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers last night. That improves their record to 4-5 and puts them 1.5 games out of playoff contention at this early point in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to national champions the Alabama Crimson Tide, who handled Ohio State 52-24 last night. Nick Saban now holds the sole distinction of most titles by a Division I college football coach.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful not to lose your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/local\/covid-19-vaccination-card-critical-receive-2nd-dose-vaccine\/TKEAPJ2QP5EVFDXUZTZL23KGEY\/\">vaccination card<\/a> after you get your first dose of the COVID vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Muck Sticky will celebrate the 20th anniversary of his first live performance with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/303202117667179\">a free online concert<\/a> tonight at 8.<\/p>\n<p>The Trumpster and Vice-President Mike Pence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/01\/11\/politics\/trump-pence-25th-amendment\/index.html\">kissed and made up<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the news on this cold, slow Tuesday. Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com\/1.0.0\/button.prod.min.js\" data-name=\"bmc-button\" data-slug=\"paulryburn\" data-color=\"#FF813F\" data-emoji=\"\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-text=\"Buy me a coffee\" data-outline-color=\"#000\" data-font-color=\"#fff\" data-coffee-color=\"#fd0\" ><\/script><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A historic building in the Pinch District was heavily damaged by fire Saturday. It appears a homeless person started a warming fire in the two-story structure at the southwest corner of N. Main and Overton. The damage was extensive and it&#8217;s unclear whether the building will be able to be saved. The County Commission approved &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/12\/tuesday-update-163\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuesday 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\/24500"}],"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=24500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24501,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24500\/revisions\/24501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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