{"id":3899,"date":"2009-06-03T12:13:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2009-06-03T12:13:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:13:52","slug":"zero-to-60-fundraiser-featuring-morgan-freeman-to-benefit-the-med","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/zero-to-60-fundraiser-featuring-morgan-freeman-to-benefit-the-med\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero to 60 fundraiser featuring Morgan Freeman to benefit the MED"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hard Rock Cafe on Beale and Morgan Freeman will host a fundraiser called “Zero to 60” Saturday night, June 6, to benefit the MED.\u00a0 There will be live music, hors d’oeuvres, and a silent auction featuring music and movie memorabilia.\u00a0 Some of the cool stuff in the silent auction includes Titan tickets, a box at Oaklawn race track in Hot Springs, a painting by MS artist Jason Bouldin, a duck hunt for two, group Redbird tickets, signed guitars by several musicians, a Sam’s Town weekend package, signed posters of Morgan Freeman, and more.\u00a0 Guests will also get to chat with Morgan and get pictures taken with him.<\/p>\n

Why support the MED?\u00a0 Here are a few reasons:<\/p>\n

1 in 4 Shelby County residents will need The MED this year<\/li>\n
The MED is the only Level 1 burn and trauma center within 150 miles<\/li>\n
It’s the third-busiest trauma center, and with a 94% survival rate, it ranks in the nation’s top 5<\/li>\n
Treats more brain-related injuries than any other hospital in the nation<\/li>\n
Has treated 45,000 premature or critically ill babies, reducing the nation’s infant mortality rate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
With so many great hospitals like St. Jude and LeBonheur here, the MED is often completely overlooked, but Memphis would be lost without it.<\/p>\n
This should be a great event… plus, given that it’s a Saturday night on Beale Street, there should be plenty of good tube top watching in the area.<\/p>\n
Check out The MED Foundation’s site<\/a> to learn more about the MED and how you can support them.\u00a0 You can purchase tickets to the fundraiser here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Hard Rock Cafe on Beale and Morgan Freeman will host a fundraiser called “Zero to 60” Saturday night, June 6, to benefit the MED.\u00a0 There will be live music, hors d’oeuvres, and a silent auction featuring music and movie memorabilia.\u00a0 Some of the cool stuff in the silent auction includes Titan tickets, a box … Continue reading “Zero to 60 fundraiser featuring Morgan Freeman to benefit the MED”<\/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\/3899"}],"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=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3900,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}