{"id":16137,"date":"2015-04-11T08:47:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T13:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=16137"},"modified":"2015-04-11T08:47:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T13:47:15","slug":"this-is-the-time-of-year-when-saturdays-get-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/11\/this-is-the-time-of-year-when-saturdays-get-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the time of year when Saturdays get awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually I end posts with my plans for the day, but today&#8217;s plans are so awesome that I will go ahead and lead off with them.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis Farmers Market<br \/>\nPanda Time at Bardog<br \/>\nMEMFix Pinch<br \/>\nTennessee Brewery Revival<br \/>\nD-RANKS with B-RAD, special birthday edition, South of Beale\/Blind Bear<\/p>\n<p>This is the tentative, minimally possible awesome schedule. Stuff could get added to make it even more awesome. I love Saturdays in April.<\/p>\n<p>Next Saturday is the rebirth of Downtown Olympics. I have never participated in the event or seen it all the way through, but it&#8217;s an interesting concept and they&#8217;ve gotten rid of the parts of it that I considered liability issues. Last night I was at Max&#8217;s and lined up a local writer to do a guest post about DTO. Look for that soon.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s opening day for Mud Island River Park and there&#8217;s a Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Romp going on over there today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rain<\/em>, a tribute to the Beatles, happens tonight at the Orpheum at 8:00.<\/p>\n<p>A new gallery called Nappi Head Art has its grand opening\u00a0in The Edge today. Address is 664 Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>There will be fireworks after the Redbirds game tonight. First pitch is at 6:05. Iowa Cubs are the opponent.<\/p>\n<p>S<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardrock.com\/promo\/sing\/default.aspx\">ing for your supper<\/a>: On Tax Day, if you get up on stage and sing a song at Hard Rock Cafe, you&#8217;ll get a free Local Legendary Burger. All ages are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>I found a good resource for anyone looking for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careeronestop.org\/GreenCareers\/GreenCareers.aspx\">green career<\/a>, one that benefits the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Four weeks until the big day: Load-in Saturday for BBQ Fest! Moody Ques workhorse &#8220;Mr. Load-in&#8221; is ready. I&#8217;m working on a slightly updated version of the BBQ Fest Load-in Theme Song that I hope to post later this weekend. \u00a0Right now, I&#8217;m going to slam a Mountain Dew Kickstart and see if I can get the f***ing dryer to stop squeaking. Today is going to be a looooonnnnnggggg day but I am ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually I end posts with my plans for the day, but today&#8217;s plans are so awesome that I will go ahead and lead off with them. Memphis Farmers Market Panda Time at Bardog MEMFix Pinch Tennessee Brewery Revival D-RANKS with B-RAD, special birthday edition, South of Beale\/Blind Bear This is the tentative, minimally possible awesome &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/11\/this-is-the-time-of-year-when-saturdays-get-awesome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is the time of year when Saturdays get awesome&#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\/16137"}],"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=16137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16138,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16137\/revisions\/16138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16137"}],"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! -->