{"id":29390,"date":"2025-12-17T11:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29390"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:43:58","slug":"wednesday-update-321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/17\/wednesday-update-321\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penny&#8217;s Memphis Tigers have another chance to get a notable win tonight as they host 13 Vanderbilt at 6. TV: ESPN2<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies are on the road at Minnesota tonight at 7. TV: NBAtv, FanDuel Sports<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Paulette&#8217;s will host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentable.com\/booking\/experiences-availability?rid=21022&amp;restref=21022&amp;experienceId=594579&amp;utm_source=external&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=shared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Charles Dickens-inspired 5-course Christmas Eve dinner<\/a>. Harbor Town Roasted Goose? HONK HONK, I say! If the goose doesn&#8217;t get you loose, you can alternately choose a main course of prime rib or redfish. $79.99 + tax and auto-grat.<\/p>\n<p>JEM Fine Dining is having <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdZ6oeCsnJA20oRWoxaDDzhS-0vx1OYl6Brz8Y2FTIXug9P3Q\/viewform?mc_cid=4aa37b2a0f&amp;mc_eid=e67e99f228&amp;pli=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a holiday bake sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Goodness gracious, great balls of ice! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/astronomy\/comets\/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-makes-its-closest-approach-to-earth-on-dec-19-heres-what-you-need-to-know?ck_subscriber_id=3201412392&amp;utm_source=convertkit&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Dolphins%20%F0%9F%A4%9D%20killer%20whales%20-%2020093897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interstellar comet 31\/ATLAS<\/a> will pass by Earth on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Decorate a 6-inch Grinch themed cake at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1338817690887999\/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2252%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%7B%5C%22invite_link_id%5C%22%3A1264089875544090%7D%7D]%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cake and Sip<\/a> at Memphis Filling Station Saturday at 1. $35 gets you the cake and a pint of MFS beer.<\/p>\n<p>Demolition of the old Commercial Appeal building at 495 Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/12\/16\/regional-one-ceo-says-demolition-former-commercial-appeal-building-begin-spring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will begin in the spring<\/a>, making way for the new Regional One hospital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/shots-reported-fired-on-mud-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A wild night on Mud Island<\/a> led to a domestic assault charge for one man and also a cop firing warning shots to back off a pit bull.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\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>Penny&#8217;s Memphis Tigers have another chance to get a notable win tonight as they host 13 Vanderbilt at 6. TV: ESPN2 The Grizzlies are on the road at Minnesota tonight at 7. TV: NBAtv, FanDuel Sports Paulette&#8217;s will host a Charles Dickens-inspired 5-course Christmas Eve dinner. Harbor Town Roasted Goose? HONK HONK, I say! If &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/17\/wednesday-update-321\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday 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\/29390"}],"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=29390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29392,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29390\/revisions\/29392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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