{"id":23792,"date":"2020-06-18T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=23792"},"modified":"2020-06-18T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T18:13:55","slug":"bbq-fest-and-music-fest-canceled-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/18\/bbq-fest-and-music-fest-canceled-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"BBQ Fest and Music Fest canceled for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis in May issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisinmay.org\/engage\/blog\/2020-memphis-in-may-events-cancelled-due-to-covid-19-pandemic\/\">statement<\/a> this morning announcing the cancellation of the 2020 BBQ Fest and Music Fest events. They had hoped to be able to hold these events in October, but COVID-19 continues to be a threat. In the interest of public health, and under the advice of health officials, the MIM board voted this morning to cancel the events.<\/p>\n<p>Music Fest ticket holders and BBQ Fest teams have the option of requesting a full refund, or they can use their ticket\/registration for the 2021 events. Ghana, set to the the honored country in 2020, will now be the honored country in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>As a BBQ Fest team member, I am disappointed of course but I feel Memphis in May absolutely made the right call. Either event had the potential to create a massive surge in new COVID-19 cases that would push local hospitals to their limit and possibly beyond.<\/p>\n<p>As a BBQ Fest team&#8217;s Director of Public Relations, I am relieved. The past couple of months I&#8217;ve been thinking, how do I recruit members to an event that might not happen, if it does happen it&#8217;ll probably be at 50% capacity so no one will be able to invite guests, and you might get to take home COVID-19 as a souvenir? Glad I don&#8217;t have to have those conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis in May issued a statement this morning announcing the cancellation of the 2020 BBQ Fest and Music Fest events. They had hoped to be able to hold these events in October, but COVID-19 continues to be a threat. In the interest of public health, and under the advice of health officials, the MIM board &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/18\/bbq-fest-and-music-fest-canceled-for-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BBQ Fest and Music Fest canceled for 2020&#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\/23792"}],"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=23792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23793,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23792\/revisions\/23793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23792"}],"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! -->