{"id":28045,"date":"2024-07-13T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28045"},"modified":"2024-07-13T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T15:39:08","slug":"saturday-update-279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/13\/saturday-update-279\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Makeda\u2019s Cookies, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/makedas-planning-to-open-cookie-franchise-in-atlanta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans<\/a> to expand to Atlanta in 2025. Visit Makeda\u2019s Downtown Memphis location at 301 Jefferson.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is coming through with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/neighborhoodsdowntown\/article\/45066\/new-downtown-memphis-mississippi-river-bridge-gets-federal-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a huge grant<\/a> to replace the I-55 Mississippi River bridge at Memphis. The new 55 bridge would be slightly south of the existing one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/foodfood-news\/article\/45070\/moneybagg-yo-cache-42-memphis-downtown-main-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moneybagg Yo is opening a restaurant<\/a> in the ReNew Riverview (99 N. Main) apartment building. It\u2019ll be open for lunch and dinner.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/ffe4d94df9062967fddb53831822aa9e\/national-french-fry-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National French Fry Day<\/a>. The Brass Door (where they\u2019re called \u201cchips\u201d) and Flying Saucer would be my recs to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Elmwood Cemetery will host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/s\/memphis-music-history\/401237432917125\/?mibextid=9l3rBW&amp;rdid=RcyJpbqxvnbhXUi6&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2FEcA7DXqN6XUh7Gbd%2F%3Fmibextid%3D9l3rBW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Memphis music history tour<\/a> the afternoon of Saturday, July 21. $20 to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Soulsville Foundation seeks a <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/job\/soulsville-foundation-memphis-80-development-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">development manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Short on time today, gotta go.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It\u2019s free to read this blog, but I gratefully accept tips!\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a><br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Makeda\u2019s Cookies, which has plans to expand to Atlanta in 2025. Visit Makeda\u2019s Downtown Memphis location at 301 Jefferson. The federal government is coming through with a huge grant to replace the I-55 Mississippi River bridge at Memphis. The new 55 bridge would be slightly south of the existing one. Moneybagg Yo is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/13\/saturday-update-279\/\" 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\/28045"}],"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=28045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28046,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28045\/revisions\/28046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28045"}],"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! -->