{"id":25902,"date":"2022-07-04T06:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T11:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25902"},"modified":"2022-07-04T06:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T11:19:23","slug":"july-4-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/04\/july-4-update\/","title":{"rendered":"July 4 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be sure to tune into the Nathan&#8217;s Famous hot dog contest and cheer on a Memphian with a Downtown connection. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/memphian-takes-the-stage-at-nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest-this-year\">Brett Healy<\/a>, a former winner of the Bardog meatball eating contest, will compete.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the meatball contest, Aldo sponsored Healy in several Nathan&#8217;s qualifiers, and he won one in Des Moines in 2019. He has been signed as a professional with Major League Eating for three years.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s hot dog eating competition will be carried on ESPN3 at 9:45 Central time and the men&#8217;s competition will be on ESPNews at 11 CT. You can also stream the events on the ESPN app.<\/p>\n<p>Go Brett! Bardog is open regular hours (which means 8 AM on a Monday) for the Fourth today. That&#8217;s where I plan to be to watch the contest. Come join me!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the Daily Dog should be a beef frank with a bun dipped in water today. I&#8217;ll suggest that to Hector when I get there.<\/p>\n<p>The Brass Door is closed today and tomorrow for staff appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>STIX Express on Second Street is closed today.<\/p>\n<p>From the DM: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/business\/article\/29511\/memphis-trolley-night-south-main-historic-district\">South Main Trolley Night makes strong return<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also from the DM: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/metro\/article\/29536\/memphis-elmwood-cemetery-to-digitize-100000-files\">Elmwood Cemetery has begun digitizing its records<\/a> and they will soon be accessible to the public via computer or smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure you <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/dont-drink-and-boat-officials-step-up-patrols-on-waterways-after-bui-law-goes-into-effect\/\">don&#8217;t drink and boat<\/a> if you get out on the river today. Officers will be out looking for drunk boaters. Penalties are the same as for driving a car drunk.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for today. Go Brett!<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/storage.ko-fi.com\/cdn\/widget\/Widget_2.js'><\/script><script type='text\/javascript'>kofiwidget2.init('Tip Jar', '#29abe0', 'B0B57GDFG');kofiwidget2.draw();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be sure to tune into the Nathan&#8217;s Famous hot dog contest and cheer on a Memphian with a Downtown connection. Brett Healy, a former winner of the Bardog meatball eating contest, will compete. After winning the meatball contest, Aldo sponsored Healy in several Nathan&#8217;s qualifiers, and he won one in Des Moines in 2019. He &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/04\/july-4-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;July 4 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\/25902"}],"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=25902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25903,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25902\/revisions\/25903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25902"}],"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! -->