{"id":8525,"date":"2010-12-21T13:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T19:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=8525"},"modified":"2010-12-21T13:05:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T19:05:34","slug":"tue-update-mcs-music-at-bar-none-cardinals-caravan-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/tue-update-mcs-music-at-bar-none-cardinals-caravan-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Tue update: MCS, music at Bar None, Cardinals Caravan, census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s big news is that the Memphis City Schools board has voted to surrender its charter, pending voter approval via a special election that will be held within 45-60 days. The surrender will effectively force consolidation of the city and county schools. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphisdailynews.com\/editorial\/Article.aspx?id=55063\">This Daily News article<\/a> is an excellent summary of how things got to this point.<\/p>\n<p>The school board was in session until 11:30 last night hearing both sides of the argument. For a recap, get on Twitter and search for the #mcs hashtag. Plenty of reporters were tweeting.<\/p>\n<p>Bar None kicks off a new Tuesday night acoustic music series tonight at 8. Kirk Smithhart will be joined by Chris Chew of North Mississippi Allstars fame. There is no cover charge, and $5 half yards of Bud Light. (John D: &#8220;Whaaaaaa? Half yards of Bud Light? Paul, I may have to leave trivia tonight after the first hour!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals Caravan is coming to AutoZone Park Sunday, January 16. Fans will get to partake in a question and answer session with past and current St. Louis Cardinals players, as well as top prospects within the farm system. Afterward there will be a meet and greet autograph session, and there will also be an auction to benefit the Redbirds&#8217; STRIPES and RBI programs. Doors open at 6 with first come first served seating, and the program will start on the park&#8217;s club level at 6:30. Hot dogs, soft drinks and nachos will be provided. Free food? Wonder if the Nuh-Uh Girl will show up. Also, the &#8216;birds store will be open 5-7 that evening with a 30% discount storewide.<\/p>\n<p>Census data has determined which state will gain and lose House seats. Texas is the big winner, while New York and Ohio are the big losers. <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/mapping-the-future\/red-states-gain-as-new-congres.html\">Details here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grizzlies play the New Jersey Nets tonight at the FedExForum. I like it when the Grizzlies have home games on Tuesdays. Trivia at the Saucer at 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s big news is that the Memphis City Schools board has voted to surrender its charter, pending voter approval via a special election that will be held within 45-60 days. The surrender will effectively force consolidation of the city and county schools. This Daily News article is an excellent summary of how things got to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/tue-update-mcs-music-at-bar-none-cardinals-caravan-census\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tue update: MCS, music at Bar None, Cardinals Caravan, census&#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\/8525"}],"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=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8526,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8525"}],"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! -->