{"id":25142,"date":"2021-09-25T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T14:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25142"},"modified":"2021-09-25T09:04:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T14:04:03","slug":"saturday-update-185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/25\/saturday-update-185\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, well, where are my manners? In my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/21\/tuesday-update-193\/\">Tuesday update<\/a> post, I listed college football games today of interest to Memphians&#8230; and I forgot the most important game of all!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UTSA at Memphis, 2:30 PM, ESPNU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Roadrunners are 3-0 and have been mentioned as a candidate to be invited to the American Athletic Conference (they&#8217;re currently in Conference USA) to replace one of the teams that will leave for the Big 12. They got a win over a Power Five team, Illinois, in their season opener. This should be a good matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michelle Taylor, Health Department Director, said <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/metro\/article\/24277\/shelby-county-health-dept-director-cautiously-optimistic-about-coronavirus-trends\">a new health directive will be issued next week<\/a> but no easing of restrictions is expected. Although case numbers and the reproduction rate are down, we&#8217;re still at a high rate of COVID hospitalization. Each bed taken up by a COVID patient is a bed not available for someone with another illness or trauma.<\/p>\n<p>Disney&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/the-lion-king-2020\">The Lion King<\/a> plays the Orpheum November 11-28, but if you have kids, Tuesday, November 16 is the day you&#8217;ll want tickets. It&#8217;ll be Kids&#8217; Night.\u00a0 Kids can enjoy pre-show crafts, a photo booth, and a packet introducing them to the theater. There&#8217;s special pricing for a limited time: Call 901-525-3000 Monday-Friday, 9 AM-5 PM, to purchase tickets, and get a child&#8217;s ticket free with the purchase of an adult ticket. Activities start at 6:30 PM and the show starts at 7:30.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a nice pic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/memphis\/comments\/pug21i\/downtown_memphis_in_1910\/\">Downtown Memphis in 1910<\/a> that got posted to Reddit.\u00a0 The Gayoso House is in the lower left, so the pic appears to be looking north from Main &amp; Peabody Place (then Main &amp; McCall).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/7fa01e9b0064c38a47cf34b38fae9896\/national-lobster-day\">National Lobster Day<\/a>, and I would recommend either the lobster omelet that Bardog almost always has as a Saturday brunch special or Slider Inn&#8217;s lobster roll. It&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/4cbd6bdd6eb98c999a18eb0fc661969c\/international-rabbit-day\">International Rabbit Day<\/a>, so I hope Flopsy Buns enjoys his day.<\/p>\n<p>From WREG: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wreg.com\/news\/local\/collierville-kroger-shooting-what-we-know-about-uk-thang\/\">What we know about Collierville Kroger shooter U.K. Thang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/361204159079995\">art festival<\/a> at Real 2 Reel Photography, 136 G.E. Patterson, today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/215743427141643\">Mr. Happy<\/a> plays Slider Inn Downtown at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Plans for today: Got a difficult choice to make between expensive PBRs, small PBRs, no PBR at all, or reasonably priced PBR that comes with a 20 minute walk. Life is complicated. 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>Well, well, well, where are my manners? In my Tuesday update post, I listed college football games today of interest to Memphians&#8230; and I forgot the most important game of all! UTSA at Memphis, 2:30 PM, ESPNU The Roadrunners are 3-0 and have been mentioned as a candidate to be invited to the American Athletic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/25\/saturday-update-185\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday 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\/25142"}],"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=25142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25143,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25142\/revisions\/25143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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