{"id":28363,"date":"2025-01-30T09:22:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T15:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28363"},"modified":"2025-01-30T09:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T15:22:46","slug":"thursday-update-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/30\/thursday-update-328\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4}}\">This morning on Wikipedia, I learned why there used to be a panini called The Trenton Makes at Aldo\u2019s Pizza Pies. In 1806, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lower_Trenton_Bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lower Trenton Bridge<\/a> opened, connecting Trenton, New Jersey to Morrisville, Pennsylvania. A motto was added in 1935: TRENTON MAKES, THE WORLD TAKES.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The panini, by the way, is still on the menu but its name has been shortened to The Trenton: prosciutto, capicola, genoa salami, ham, American, provolone, marinated mushroom, pickled red onion, banana pepper, oil &amp; vinegar, mayo, black pepper.<\/p>\n<p>Army vet Karl Loucks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/01\/30\/army-veteran-pleads-not-guilty-killing-homeless-man-downtown-memphis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded not guilty<\/a> to killing a homeless man near his Downtown apartment last year. This story is getting picked up by a lot of TV stations nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The big story nationally this morning is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/live-news\/plane-crash-dca-potomac-washington-dc-01-29-25\/index.html?t=1738206614132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collision<\/a> of an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter in DC. No survivors are expected.<\/p>\n<p>Penny&#8217;s Memphis Tigers play Tulane tonight at 8 in New Orleans. TV: ESPN2<\/p>\n<p>Crawfish and shrimp are back at Max&#8217;s Sports Bar Saturday. First batch will be ready at noon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/596975996371571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FROST&#8217;D<\/a> limited release tasting party is back at Grind City Brewing Saturday. Raffles, food trucks, live music. Someone will win free beer for a year. (52 6-packs)<\/p>\n<p>More and more Downtown restaurants are upcharging for items that include eggs in response to the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mollybohannon\/2025\/01\/28\/heres-why-egg-prices-are-so-high-and-may-get-worse-as-bird-flu-persists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">price spike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all. Everyone stay dry.<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s free to read this blog, but I gratefully accept tips!\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nVenmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on Wikipedia, I learned why there used to be a panini called The Trenton Makes at Aldo\u2019s Pizza Pies. In 1806, the Lower Trenton Bridge opened, connecting Trenton, New Jersey to Morrisville, Pennsylvania. A motto was added in 1935: TRENTON MAKES, THE WORLD TAKES.\u00a0 The panini, by the way, is still on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/30\/thursday-update-328\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday 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\/28363"}],"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=28363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28364,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28363\/revisions\/28364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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