{"id":26883,"date":"2023-08-02T07:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T12:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26883"},"modified":"2023-08-02T07:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T12:24:35","slug":"wednesday-update-241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/02\/wednesday-update-241\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FVolsSuck%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0338iBqzePrRMgDVxHX4nCzzsZf5hm41DncTQmBjiV3dXiRoCicXyEqwhsPxCsdgH3l&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The next Women&#8217;s World Cup match for the U.S. Women&#8217;s National Team has been announced, and the start time is atrocious: Sweden vs. USA, 4 AM Sunday on FOX.<\/p>\n<p>An Excessive Heat Warning has been issued for Shelby County today, with the heat index potentially climbing to 114.<\/p>\n<p>Mick Jagger turned 80 last week.<\/p>\n<p>Dos Hermanos Kitchen, the restaurant in the Cossitt Library at Front and Monroe, is doing Brunch on the Bluff this Saturday from 11 AM to 4 PM.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2023\/08\/01\/901-now-local-creates-trivia-app-that-tests-users-knowledge-memphis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memphis trivia app<\/a> for iPhone and Android. It&#8217;s called Na Bruh. I just installed it on my MacBook, which can run iPhone apps.<\/p>\n<p>From the CA: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/sports\/columnists\/mark-giannotto\/2023\/08\/02\/big-12-expansion-memphis-pac-12-conference-realignment-rumors-stuck-aac-acc-sec-penny-hardaway\/70502110007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memphis feels closer than ever to Big 12 expansion, but is still stuck in purgatory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Black Lodge will hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1343725003157246\/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22discovery_this_week_tab%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22bookmark%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Pee-wee&#8217;s Playhouse marathon<\/a> this Sunday. It&#8217;s free, all ages are welcome, and it starts at 3 PM.<\/p>\n<p>The Blind Bear has announced its Features (specials) for this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>French onion soup<\/li>\n<li>Firecracker salmon<\/li>\n<li>Lemon cheesecake (by Keun Anderson)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They&#8217;ll have the specials until they run out. That means they&#8217;ll probably have them through Saturday, but if you want to make sure you don&#8217;t miss out, come Friday or earlier.<\/p>\n<p>One more piece of Blind Bear news: Mama Bear herself, Jeannette, will pick up a bartending shift for Thursday happy hour (3-7 PM). It will be Throwdown Thursday where you can play games for a chance to win Bear gift cards &#8211; if enough people show up. Last week&#8217;s game would have been Spelling Bee &#8211; which, as a writer, would have given me a huge advantage &#8211; but we never had enough people to start. I guess it&#8217;s because so many people are out on vacation.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for today. Not a terribly newsy day. Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Women&#8217;s World Cup match for the U.S. Women&#8217;s National Team has been announced, and the start time is atrocious: Sweden vs. USA, 4 AM Sunday on FOX. An Excessive Heat Warning has been issued for Shelby County today, with the heat index potentially climbing to 114. Mick Jagger turned 80 last week. Dos &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/02\/wednesday-update-241\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday 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\/26883"}],"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=26883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26884,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883\/revisions\/26884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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