{"id":26114,"date":"2022-10-09T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26114"},"modified":"2022-10-09T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T14:39:18","slug":"sunday-update-151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/09\/sunday-update-151\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lead story in the Daily Memphian is a shocking one: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/subscriber\/section\/metro\/article\/31089\/shelby-county-jail-regularly-houses-people-over-500-days\">There are people who stay locked up in 201 Poplar for 500 days without a trial<\/a> (subscribers-only link). Damn. That is just terrible. Even the pandemic is not an acceptable excuse.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also an infographic in the story that explains why this matters even to people who&#8217;ve never spent a day in jail in their lives. Housing the 649 people who&#8217;ve been in the jail 500+ days has cost the taxpayers more than $32 MILLION.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if we&#8217;d renovated Mud Island Park with that money instead. Or hired the county clerk&#8217;s office some additional help to get caught up with license plates.<\/p>\n<p>Kooky Canuck has a new menu item, maple-glazed salmon. Co-owner Lana suggests it over the Log House salad or Cobb salad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/pretty-woman\">Pretty Woman: The Musical<\/a> comes to the Orpheum this week.<\/p>\n<p>Next door to the Orpheum at the Halloran Centre, <a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/mersey-beatles\">The Mersey Beatles<\/a> play Wednesday night. They are a Beatles cover band from Liverpool. They spent more than 10 years there as the resident band at the Cavern Club, where the Beatles themselves played from 1961 to 1963.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/4b2d69b119a3f30ff78c9911864cf8fd\/international-beer-and-pizza-day\">International Beer and Pizza Day<\/a>. Aldo&#8217;s Pizza Pies would be the logical choice to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I learned that some Bardog employees call the downstairs, officially known as the Underdog Room, the &#8220;Fungeon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From Fox 13: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/local\/locals-react-after-driver-does-donuts-front-mpd-car\/FZMHA6737FDRZAMPEKIPC2XLJE\/\">Video shows a car doing donuts in an intersection<\/a> while an MPD officer sat idly nearby in his vehicle, doing nothing about it.<\/p>\n<p>STAX Jazz Ensemble plays <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/3168408606740227\/3168408623406892\/?active_tab=about\">Sunset Jazz<\/a> in Court Square today from 5 to 7. Lawn chairs and blankets are welcome and food trucks will be onsite.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis 901 FC hosts New York Red Bull II at AutoZone Park today at 3. This is the final home match of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Austin AKA Coyote who works at the Blind Bear asked yesterday, &#8220;When am I going to be cool enough to be mentioned in Paul&#8217;s blog?&#8221; Today, that&#8217;s when.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for today. Back tomorrow or maybe Tuesday with more news.<\/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>The lead story in the Daily Memphian is a shocking one: There are people who stay locked up in 201 Poplar for 500 days without a trial (subscribers-only link). Damn. That is just terrible. Even the pandemic is not an acceptable excuse. There&#8217;s also an infographic in the story that explains why this matters even &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/09\/sunday-update-151\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday 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\/26114"}],"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=26114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26115,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26114\/revisions\/26115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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