{"id":14377,"date":"2013-09-14T10:11:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T15:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=14377"},"modified":"2013-09-14T10:11:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T15:11:22","slug":"sat-update-dragon-trolley-big-scoop-ice-cream-festival-does-it-work-possible-new-hotel-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/14\/sat-update-dragon-trolley-big-scoop-ice-cream-festival-does-it-work-possible-new-hotel-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat update: Dragon trolley, Big Scoop Ice Cream Festival, Does it Work?, possible new hotel site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa! Almost left the apartment without hitting Publish again. I hate it when I do that.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a new <a href=\"http:\/\/downtown.wmctv.com\/photo-gallery\/community-spirit\/195092-dragon-trolley-circle-downtown-memphis\">dragon trolley<\/a> circling Downtown. Its purpose is to promote the dragon boat races that will happen on Mud Island October 5. I saw it last night and it looks really good. It&#8217;s actually not a new trolley, but one of the old trolleys that has been wrapped.<\/p>\n<p>The 19th annual Big Scoop Ice Cream Festival will happen Saturday, September 28 from 11 AM to 4 PM at AutoZone Park. Your ticket, $7 in advance or $10 at the door, lets you eat all the ice cream you want while enjoying live entertainment. Needless to say, this event is kid-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Kooky Canuck&#8217;s own Shawn Danko was on WREG Channel 3&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wreg.com\/2013\/09\/11\/does-it-work-head-blade\/\">Does it Work?<\/a> segment this week. He tested the Head Blade, a new hand-held device for shaving one&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/memphis\/news\/2013\/09\/13\/parking-lot-across-from-autozone-park.html\">The parking lot across Union from AutoZone Park has been sold<\/a> and there is talk that a hotel may be built on that space.<\/p>\n<p>Whew&#8230; after typing such a long post, I think I deserve a PBR. Time to go get one. Happy Saturday and be careful out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa! Almost left the apartment without hitting Publish again. I hate it when I do that. There&#8217;s a new dragon trolley circling Downtown. Its purpose is to promote the dragon boat races that will happen on Mud Island October 5. I saw it last night and it looks really good. It&#8217;s actually not a new &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/14\/sat-update-dragon-trolley-big-scoop-ice-cream-festival-does-it-work-possible-new-hotel-site\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sat update: Dragon trolley, Big Scoop Ice Cream Festival, Does it Work?, possible new hotel site&#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\/14377"}],"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=14377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14378,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions\/14378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14377"}],"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! -->