{"id":24839,"date":"2021-05-14T05:54:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T10:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24839"},"modified":"2021-05-14T05:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T10:54:14","slug":"friday-update-174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/14\/friday-update-174\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time and TV have been set for Sunday&#8217;s schedule for the final day of the NBA regular season. Golden State will host the Memphis Grizzlies at 2:30 that afternoon on ESPN. That game looks more and more likely to be a shootout for the 8th seed in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>First, though, the teams have to get through tonight.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Memphis hosts Sacramento (who they beat 116-110 last night) at 8 PM<\/li>\n<li>Golden State hosts New Orleans at 8:30, ESPN. Go Zion!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Max&#8217;s Sports Bar will open at 2 Sunday for those who want to watch the Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p>A new concert series was announced yesterday. Memphis Tourism is teaming up with several partners to present <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/new-summer-concert-series-coming-to-downtown-memphis\/\">Get Loud<\/a>, a series of 14 concerts in Handy Park (Beale at B.B. King Blvd.) in June, July, and August. First up: P.J. Morton with Marcella &amp; Her Lovers on Saturday, June 5. All shows start at 6 PM and are free to attend.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden appeared at a press conference yesterday. He said that if you&#8217;re fully vaccinated against COVID-19, it&#8217;s time to show your smile again, to hug, to shake hands. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cdc-guideline-mask-vaccinated\/\">The CDC says we can do that.<\/a> New guidance indicates fully vaccinated people can shed their masks in most indoor and outdoor situations.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/a0027789c2662a50702b1e0ecc8ced8d\/dance-like-a-chicken-day\">Dance Like a Chicken Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An expert says <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/expert-hernando-desoto-bridge-design-contributed-to-separation-fix-could-take-up-to-a-year\/\">it could take up to a year<\/a> to repair the I-40 bridge if more cracks are found via X-ray inspection. By the way, the same barge I wrote about yesterday is still sitting on the river, same spot. Too bad its crew can&#8217;t come ashore for a Backlot biscuit sandwich or some Maciel&#8217;s tacos while they wait. Local 24 interviewed shipping experts, who said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/article\/news\/local\/barge-companies-worry-as-i-40-bridge-shutdown-causes-indefinite-halt-in-boat-cargo\/522-e8914051-f87c-42af-88bd-b8e7c691a996\">the barges can&#8217;t make a U-turn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the disruption in shipping doesn&#8217;t affect PBR prices.<\/p>\n<p>Good read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/05\/14\/jeffrey-epstein-investigation-women-487157\">The women who enabled Jeffrey Epstein<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1216835968750693\">Broke Tall Folk<\/a> play The Vault tonight at 8:30.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this post. Let&#8217;s get through today then gear up for a maskless weekend with no social distancing. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com\/1.0.0\/button.prod.min.js\" data-name=\"bmc-button\" data-slug=\"paulryburn\" data-color=\"#FF813F\" data-emoji=\"\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-text=\"Buy me a PBR\" data-outline-color=\"#000\" data-font-color=\"#fff\" data-coffee-color=\"#fd0\" ><\/script><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time and TV have been set for Sunday&#8217;s schedule for the final day of the NBA regular season. Golden State will host the Memphis Grizzlies at 2:30 that afternoon on ESPN. That game looks more and more likely to be a shootout for the 8th seed in the Western Conference. First, though, the teams have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/14\/friday-update-174\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday 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\/24839"}],"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=24839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24840,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839\/revisions\/24840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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