{"id":2985,"date":"2009-01-19T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2009-01-19T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T16:30:05","slug":"civil-rights-game-memphis-grizzlies-vs-detroit-pistons-at-fedexforum-430-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/civil-rights-game-memphis-grizzlies-vs-detroit-pistons-at-fedexforum-430-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights Game (Memphis Grizzlies vs. Detroit Pistons) at FedExForum 4:30 today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA&#8217;s annual Civil Rights Game, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will be held at the FedExForum at 4:30 PM today.\u00a0 Tickets are still available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/grizzlies\/\">grizzlies.com<\/a>.\u00a0 All-Stars Dave Bing and &#8220;Dr. J&#8221; Julius Erving will receive the National Civil Rights Museum Sports Legacy Award.\u00a0 The CA has an <a href=\"http:\/\/commercialappeal.com\/news\/2009\/jan\/19\/bing-planned-for-future\/?partner=RSS\">article<\/a> on Bing, a 7-time All-Star who went on to become one of the nation&#8217;s most successful African-American entrepreneurs, founding The Bing Group, a manufacturing company in Detroit that supplies auto parts.<\/p>\n<p>In other news&#8230; I&#8217;ve heard that the Silly Goose will open very, very soon.\u00a0 They would&#8217;ve been open already, but they drove to Nashville Friday to pick up their liquor license, only to find that the office had closed 15 minutes early for the 3-day weekend.\u00a0 Gotta love our government.\u00a0 Look for it to open later this week.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post a summary of inauguration watch locations Downtown later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA&#8217;s annual Civil Rights Game, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will be held at the FedExForum at 4:30 PM today.\u00a0 Tickets are still available at grizzlies.com.\u00a0 All-Stars Dave Bing and &#8220;Dr. J&#8221; Julius Erving will receive the National Civil Rights Museum Sports Legacy Award.\u00a0 The CA has an article on Bing, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/civil-rights-game-memphis-grizzlies-vs-detroit-pistons-at-fedexforum-430-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Civil Rights Game (Memphis Grizzlies vs. Detroit Pistons) at FedExForum 4:30 today&#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\/2985"}],"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=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2987,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"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! -->