{"id":24737,"date":"2021-04-05T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24737"},"modified":"2021-04-05T06:09:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:09:07","slug":"monday-update-144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/05\/monday-update-144\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard about 20 gunshots popping off in rapid succession at about 9:45 last night. It sounded to the south and west of my apartment. I guessed the location to be Riverside and Monroe, but a post on Nextdoor places the gunfire at Front and Beale. At least two vehicles were said to be exchanging shots at that location.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, in a span of about 20 seconds, I heard more gunshots than I heard my first 17 years of living Downtown pre-pandemic. I also heard squealing tires and revving engines that sounded like people were drag racing on Riverside.<\/p>\n<p>OK here we go. From WREG: <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/police-investigating-shooting-outside-downtown-memphis-hotel\/\">Police investigating shooting outside new Downtown Memphis hotel.<\/a>\u00a0Shell casings were found all over the area. Welcome to the neighborhood, Hyatt Centric! Imagine what the TripAdvisor reviews are going to look like if you don&#8217;t use your influence with the city to get police to crack down hard.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many tenants The Waterford will lose this year because of this bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much the value of condos at 266 Lofts on Front will be depressed by the fact that there&#8217;s a war zone outside on the weekends.<\/p>\n<p>I looked out my window about 9 last night and saw plenty of kids riding around on scooters. I wonder how long it will be before a second one gets caught in the crossfire.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if any conventions will bypass Memphis after their organizers read the headlines about Downtown Memphis and learn about the cruising and the shootings.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if any season ticket holders will decide not to renew their 2021-22 Orpheum plan because they feel it&#8217;s not safe to come to the Orpheum&#8217;s neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>AutoZone could certainly throw its corporate weight around with the city and request something be done&#8230; after all, this is happening in its Store Support Center&#8217;s backyard.<\/p>\n<p>In other news&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies improved to 24-23 and 8th place in the Western Conference with a win over Philly last night.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA men&#8217;s basketball championship tips off tonight at 8:20 on CBS. All the Cinderellas are gone, leaving the two best teams in the country, Baylor and Gonzaga, to battle it out for a national title.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for this Monday. I&#8217;ll keep my eye on the news for more info on the shooting last night. 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>I heard about 20 gunshots popping off in rapid succession at about 9:45 last night. It sounded to the south and west of my apartment. I guessed the location to be Riverside and Monroe, but a post on Nextdoor places the gunfire at Front and Beale. At least two vehicles were said to be exchanging &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/05\/monday-update-144\/\" 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\/24737"}],"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=24737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24738,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24737\/revisions\/24738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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