{"id":3265,"date":"2009-02-25T09:21:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2009-02-25T09:21:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:21:55","slug":"ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/ash-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.\u00a0 Of course, during Lent we are supposed to sacrifice, to give up something we enjoy.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve thought about this long and hard and have come to a decision:\u00a0 <strong>For Lent I will give up Abita Turbo Dog.<\/strong> Everyone knows how much I love Turbo Dog, and I&#8217;m going to deny it to myself for 40 days.\u00a0 Sacrifices have to be made this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>The CA reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2009\/feb\/25\/crime-report-memphis-man-accused-downtown-misbehav\/?partner=RSS\">Ear Tumor Guy has been arrested for the 4th time this year for indecent exposure<\/a>.\u00a0 (Scroll down to the second story in the crime report to read)\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen this guy panhandling Downtown ever since I&#8217;ve been down here.\u00a0 Apparently bumming isn&#8217;t his only hobby &#8211; he also likes to pull down his pants and play with his pee-pee in the area around Beale and the FedExForum.\u00a0 Lovely.\u00a0 If you walk around Downtown you&#8217;ll run into this guy eventually &#8211; look for his sport jackets, the likes of which have not been seen since Charles Nelson Reilly was a regular on Match Game &#8217;76.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for a news update about a new place opening in the Downtown core.\u00a0 I got e-mailed a rumor about this from a very credible source, and just want to walk over and confirm it for myself before I post.\u00a0 I will say that it&#8217;s someone who has operated a <em>very<\/em> successful business Downtown in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Time to take a walk around the block&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.\u00a0 Of course, during Lent we are supposed to sacrifice, to give up something we enjoy.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve thought about this long and hard and have come to a decision:\u00a0 For Lent I will give up Abita Turbo Dog. Everyone knows how much I love Turbo Dog, and I&#8217;m going &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/ash-wednesday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ash Wednesday&#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\/3265"}],"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=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"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! -->