{"id":19923,"date":"2017-08-07T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T17:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=19923"},"modified":"2017-08-07T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T17:45:55","slug":"monday-update-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/07\/monday-update-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want a free preview of the August 20 <a href=\"https:\/\/racesonline.com\/events\/breakaway-bardog-5k\">Breakaway-Bardog 5K<\/a> course? Join The Salty Dogs for a run this evening, departing from Bardog at 7 PM. There is no charge to participate and you get specials in The Underdog following the run.<\/p>\n<p>Get ready for an influx of tourists to Memphis late this week as Elvis Week begins. The official dates are August 11-19 and here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graceland.com\/events\/calendar\/eventdetails.aspx?id=51\">calendar<\/a>. This should be a big year, marking the 40th anniversary of the death of The King.<\/p>\n<p>A Flying Saucer manager told me that Stumblin&#8217; Elvis is coming back Saturday, August 19. People dress up as Elvis and stumble from bar to bar. I will get more details on the list of bars and what charity they are supporting this year. I know the Tin Roof and Blind Bear are usually on the list of stops.<\/p>\n<p>Loflin Yard will pay homage to the Blue Hawaii days of Elvis with the second annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/140828899838111\/\">Loflin Luau<\/a> August 18-20. There will be a pig roast, live music, and tiki drink specials.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Make sure you grab a team card set at the Team Store this homestand! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/historic?src=hash\">#historic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7bLq4kmHzv\">pic.twitter.com\/7bLq4kmHzv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Memphis Redbirds (@memphisredbirds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memphisredbirds\/status\/894606330245382144\">August 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a good idea. As many Redbirds have been called up to the majors this season, some of these cards may be worth some good money in 10 or 15 years&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve thought about adopting a dog or cat, this is the month to do it. <a href=\"http:\/\/memphisanimalservices.com\">Memphis Animal Services<\/a> is doing $20 adoptions during the month of August. Adoptions include spay\/neuter, vaccines, microchip, a heartworm test for dogs, FIV\/FeLV test for cats, a collar, a leash for dogs and a customized ID tag, so that is a heck of a deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Redbirds are back in town for a short homestand, tonight through Thursday. They will play Omaha tonight with first pitch at 6:35.<\/p>\n<p>Got word that an extremely bad-ass team is &#8220;about 95% sure&#8221; they will be entering Best Memphis Burger Fest this year. Going to hold off on naming the team until they confirm, but it&#8217;s a group that would immediately would be in contention for trophies.<\/p>\n<p>In another &#8220;can&#8217;t yet disclose what I know&#8221; type of thing, I have reason to believe Cafe Pontotoc will not close in a few weeks after all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmcactionnews5.com\/story\/36078612\/10-beer-kegs-stolen-from-silky-osullivans\">Ten kegs were stolen from Silky&#8217;s<\/a> Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis wrestling may be coming back to TV. Hear the details on this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerritolive.com\/cerrito-live-podcasts\/cerrito-live-podcast-jerry-lawler-talks-about-his-new-memphis-wrestling-tv-pilot\/\">Cerrito Live podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More bad news for Comrade Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Schneiderman source: A grand jury has been seated to hear evidence in Enterprise Corruption(NY RICO) case against Trump Organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrueFactsStated\/status\/894552727220617216\">August 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A few things to note here: Schneiderman is the New York attorney general. State cases are not pardonable by the president. RICO is the law that brought down John Gotti and other high-ranking members of the Gambino crime family.<\/p>\n<p>Probably going to hit Bardog for happy hour tonight. Melissa Monday is no more, but I want to see who takes over the bar shift. I also want to see if I hear any more news about Monroe Avenue Fest coming up on the 20th. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want a free preview of the August 20 Breakaway-Bardog 5K course? Join The Salty Dogs for a run this evening, departing from Bardog at 7 PM. There is no charge to participate and you get specials in The Underdog following the run. Get ready for an influx of tourists to Memphis late this week as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/07\/monday-update-53\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday update&#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\/19923"}],"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=19923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19924,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19923\/revisions\/19924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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