The following e-mail was sent to me from an out-of-town guest. He most recently visited Memphis the weekend of June 30, when they had the fireworks Downtown. I asked and received his permission to publish it.<\/p>\n
Paul,<\/span><\/p>\n I enjoy your blog. I live in Huntsville and have visited Memphis twice in<\/span> The thing that struck me about this last visit was the incredible number of<\/span> As a tourist, I was very turned off by the incessant begging. I think Main<\/span> The city is going to lose its tourists if they don’t do something about it.<\/span><\/p>\n Keep up the good work.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following e-mail was sent to me from an out-of-town guest. He most recently visited Memphis the weekend of June 30, when they had the fireworks Downtown. I asked and received his permission to publish it. Paul, I enjoy your blog. I live in Huntsville and have visited Memphis twice inthe past year or so. … Continue reading “Panhandling: A visitor’s viewpoint”<\/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\/1120"}],"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=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
the past year or so. The last time was during the end of June this year.<\/span><\/p>\n
panhandlers. I know you’ve written quite a bit about it and have taken<\/span>
photos. Good job.<\/span><\/p>\n
and Madison was the worst area. We were trying to get on the trolley and no<\/span>
less than three separate panhandlers hit us at the same stop. Went back<\/span>
there the next day and got hit up again.<\/span><\/p>\n