{"id":16069,"date":"2015-03-21T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T15:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=16069"},"modified":"2015-03-21T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T15:22:53","slug":"women-on-20s-and-more-saturday-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/21\/women-on-20s-and-more-saturday-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Women on 20s and more Saturday news"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my Facebook friends (who I only knew for a few brief weeks in real life) posted a rather interesting link yesterday: Women on 20s.<\/a> The idea is that it’s time to put a woman on the 20 dollar bill. Nothing against Andrew Jackson, the current face on the 20. It’s just that it’s somewhat ironic that he is on money at all – he was against creation of a national bank. The site is petitioning President Obama to put a woman on the 20, and asks visitors to vote for one of 15 women. Personally, I’d like to see Harriet Tubman on the 20, but there are a lot of good choices.<\/p>\n

I discovered something I did not know yesterday: Arkansas star forward Bobby Portis<\/a> went to the same high school I did. He won championships for Little Rock Hall High earlier in the decade. We had a pretty strong team when I went there too, but our two star players were 5’7″ and 5’9″ and therefore had limited opportunities to play college ball.<\/p>\n

Random fact I learned this week: Cincinnati was known as Porkopolis in the 19th century. It was the country’s chief hog-packing center at the time, and pigs wandered the streets. \u00a0If BBQ Fest had existed back then, it might have been in Cincinnati rather than Memphis.<\/p>\n

Interesting MakeUseOf article: Introverts love Facebook more than extroverts.<\/a> Yeah I can see that being the case.<\/p>\n

Happy birthday to one of the sexiest women in Memphis, the fabulous Paula Raiford.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies host Portland tonight at FedExForum at 7.<\/p>\n

The Center for Southern Folklore is holding a Blues Legends Birthday Bash tonight. Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Panda’s bar at 11, librarian glasses later in the day, BBQ meeting at 6, Hogs at 7:40. Should be a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my Facebook friends (who I only knew for a few brief weeks in real life) posted a rather interesting link yesterday: Women on 20s. The idea is that it’s time to put a woman on the 20 dollar bill. Nothing against Andrew Jackson, the current face on the 20. It’s just that it’s … Continue reading “Women on 20s and more Saturday news”<\/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\/16069"}],"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=16069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16070,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069\/revisions\/16070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}