{"id":29412,"date":"2025-12-25T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29412"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:54:17","slug":"chrupdate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/25\/chrupdate\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrupdate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s one thing that sucks about Christmas in Downtown Memphis\u2026 waiting for the bars to open at 5 PM. Tick, tock, tick, tock\u2026(sad face)<\/p>\n<p>This year, however, we have 360 fewer minutes to wait. Earnestine &amp; Hazel\u2019s opened at 11 AM today. No special Christmas food menu, just Soul Burgers and good vibes and ghosts and football on TV. They will be open tonight until 1 AM.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to South Main gift shop Feelin\u2019 Memphis on winning the DMC\u2018s holiday storefront competition.<\/p>\n<p>A pop-up called Lucha Wine Bar <a href=\"https:\/\/downtownmemphis.com\/do\/the-return-of-lucha-wine-bar-pop-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">returns<\/a> Sunday to JEM Fine Dining.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine and Mary\u2019s is hiring a <a href=\"https:\/\/culinaryagents.com\/jobs\/672214-Line-Cook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">line cook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas. Come to E&amp;H and have a PBR with me.<\/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>There\u2019s one thing that sucks about Christmas in Downtown Memphis\u2026 waiting for the bars to open at 5 PM. Tick, tock, tick, tock\u2026(sad face) This year, however, we have 360 fewer minutes to wait. Earnestine &amp; Hazel\u2019s opened at 11 AM today. No special Christmas food menu, just Soul Burgers and good vibes and ghosts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/25\/chrupdate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chrupdate&#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\/29412"}],"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=29412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29413,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29412\/revisions\/29413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29412"}],"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! -->