{"id":26154,"date":"2022-10-28T07:33:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26154"},"modified":"2022-10-28T07:33:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:33:04","slug":"friday-update-232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/28\/friday-update-232\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Biggs of the DM reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/neighborhoods\/article\/31850\/downtown-memphis-flight-restaurant-to-reopen\">Flight will reopen today<\/a> following 4 weeks of having to shut down due to a water main break. The owner of Flight says he&#8217;s committed to keeping the restaurant Downtown despite the infrastructure problems.<\/p>\n<p>The same article said the basement level of Brinkley Plaza was flooded with 8 feet of water due to the water main break on October 1. There&#8217;s an art gallery down there. I wonder if all of its works were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/2fa931b9772aa0ab5e1be6d81fd53a48\/frankenstein-friday\">Frankenstein Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>GREAT NEWS: It&#8217;s now official. <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/memphis-in-may-returning-to-tom-lee-park-in-2023\/\">Memphis in May will return to Tom Lee Park<\/a> in 2023. This year the festival had to move to the fairgrounds due to construction and saw the lowest attendance in many years.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies got a fine 125-110 road win at Sacramento last night. Desmond Bane is looking like he plans on joining Ja Morant in the 2023 All-Star lineup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/local\/mata-offering-free-rides-early-voting-today\/H7NAQ6ONBFALXEDSNZI5YQWWPU\/\">MATA is offering free rides today<\/a> so people can early vote.<\/p>\n<p>Been experimenting with ABOUT and CRIES as my starting words for Wordle and have had pretty good success lately.<\/p>\n<p>I normally groan when I walk into Bardog and see that stupid horse racing channel on TV. It&#8217;s a bunch of damn animals running in a circle. Who cares. However, yesterday there was a race that was exciting: Two horses bucked their jockeys and finished riderless.<\/p>\n<p>Over and out. Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/storage.ko-fi.com\/cdn\/widget\/Widget_2.js'><\/script><script type='text\/javascript'>kofiwidget2.init('Tip Jar', '#29abe0', 'B0B57GDFG');kofiwidget2.draw();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Biggs of the DM reports that Flight will reopen today following 4 weeks of having to shut down due to a water main break. The owner of Flight says he&#8217;s committed to keeping the restaurant Downtown despite the infrastructure problems. The same article said the basement level of Brinkley Plaza was flooded with 8 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/28\/friday-update-232\/\" 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\/26154"}],"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=26154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26155,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26154\/revisions\/26155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26154"}],"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! -->