{"id":26800,"date":"2023-07-03T07:42:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T12:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26800"},"modified":"2023-07-03T07:42:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T12:42:45","slug":"monday-update-215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/03\/monday-update-215\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s have an update on how that box of Swiss chocolates is coming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/empty-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26801\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/empty.jpeg?resize=472%2C500\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/empty-scaled.jpeg?resize=472%2C500 472w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/empty-scaled.jpeg?resize=283%2C300 283w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/empty-scaled.jpeg?resize=1450%2C1536 1450w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/empty-scaled.jpeg?resize=1934%2C2048 1934w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/empty-scaled.jpeg?resize=1200%2C1271 1200w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/empty-scaled.jpeg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 85vw, 472px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep. Empty. I ate the entire box in one day!<\/p>\n<p>Beans, beans, good for the heart. The more you eat, the more you&#8230; It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/39a2da7a47f8e79fd82c7751e049344d\/national-eat-beans-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Beans Day<\/a>. My recommendation would be a side of baked beans to go along with your favorite entree at Central BBQ. The red beans and rice at Ben Yay&#8217;s would also be a good call.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/bc22cef0631674ebedef357f89fd29e8\/american-redneck-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Redneck Day<\/a>. My suggestion for a place to celebrate would be Millington.<\/p>\n<p>Bleacher Report <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/10081189-2023-nba-free-agency-grades-for-every-signing-from-day-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gave the Houston Rockets a D grade<\/a> for their 4-year, $80M acquisition of Dillon Brooks. &#8220;We may have a new winner for the worst contract this offseason,&#8221; BR&#8217;s staff wrote.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, BR gave the Grizzlies an A for maxing out Desmond Bane.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nextdoor, a man scaled a wall at River Tower condo and went for a swim in the pool in his underwear. Security asked him to leave.<\/p>\n<p>The DM has a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/neighborhoods\/article\/37006\/memphis-promise-restaurant-brings-soul-food-back-to-south-main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Promise<\/a>, which is bringing soul food back to South Main for lunch, dinner, and Saturday brunch. Plans to expand to Sunday are in the works. A menu for children is available.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the DM: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/sportsmemphis-tigers-basketball\/article\/37088\/memphis-tigers-basketball-nba-summer-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seven former Memphis Tigers will play<\/a> in NBA Summer League. Golden State in particular will be a team to watch, with Kendric Davis and Lester Quinones on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting note: Emoni Bates, the 49th pick in this year&#8217;s NBA draft, will play for Cleveland in Summer League. Remember when he was recruited to Memphis in 2021 and analysts said he was sure to be a lottery pick?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedexforum.com\/events\/alicia-keys-keys-to-the-summer-tour-230705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alicia Keys<\/a> comes to FedExForun Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>There will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/3470324639846022\/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22discovery_this_week_tab%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22bookmark%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nerd Trivia<\/a> at Grind City Brewing Co. Wednesday beginning at 6:30.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users now have <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/twitter-outage-musk-complaints-restrictions-b59ef586491891fdd3d6c8220ba2ec0d?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">limits<\/a> on the number of tweets they can see per day &#8211; 1000 (unverified users) or 10,000 (verified). Thanks a lot, Elon. It&#8217;s being done to fight data scraping.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for today. Not sure if I will do a July 4 post tomorrow. Bardog opens at 8 and I plan on being there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s have an update on how that box of Swiss chocolates is coming. Yep. Empty. I ate the entire box in one day! Beans, beans, good for the heart. The more you eat, the more you&#8230; It&#8217;s National Beans Day. My recommendation would be a side of baked beans to go along with your favorite &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/03\/monday-update-215\/\" 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\/26800"}],"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=26800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26802,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26800\/revisions\/26802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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