{"id":29402,"date":"2025-12-22T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29402"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:16:54","slug":"monday-update-288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/monday-update-288\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Memphis River Parks Partnership employees in their work truck <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/memphis-river-parks-truck-stolen-at-gunpoint-downtown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were robbed at gunpoint<\/a> this morning around 3 near the Shell station at Crump and Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies have an 8:30 road game at the Oklahoma City Thunder tonight. TV: Peacock<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/memphis-organization-gives-meals-essentials-for-national-homeless-memorial-day\/.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There was an observance of National Homeless Memorial Day<\/a> in Morris Park yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I tried Bardog&#8217;s newest dessert, Chocolate Overload Cake, Saturday:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29403\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0135.jpeg?resize=276%2C300\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0135-scaled.jpeg?resize=276%2C300 276w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0135-scaled.jpeg?resize=460%2C500 460w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0135-scaled.jpeg?resize=1415%2C1536 1415w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0135-scaled.jpeg?resize=1886%2C2048 1886w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0135-scaled.jpeg?resize=1200%2C1303 1200w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0135-scaled.jpeg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 85vw, 276px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a must-try for chocolate lovers. The photo above (click it to zoom in) doesn&#8217;t begin to do it justice.<\/p>\n<p>The Orpheum will show classic Christmas movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/events\/its-a-wonderful-life-holiday-movie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/a> tonight. Prior to the movie, there will be remarks by the daughter of Donna Reed. Toy drive for Porter-Leath.<\/p>\n<p>Penny&#8217;s Memphis Tigers host Alabama State tonight at 7 at FedExForum. TV: ESPN+<\/p>\n<p>I will try to post this week, but Parkinson&#8217;s disease + holiday depression is not a good combination. Maybe the warm weather will help.<\/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>Two Memphis River Parks Partnership employees in their work truck were robbed at gunpoint this morning around 3 near the Shell station at Crump and Florida. The Grizzlies have an 8:30 road game at the Oklahoma City Thunder tonight. TV: Peacock There was an observance of National Homeless Memorial Day in Morris Park yesterday. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/monday-update-288\/\" 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\/29402"}],"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=29402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29407,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29402\/revisions\/29407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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