{"id":28495,"date":"2025-03-21T08:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28495"},"modified":"2025-03-21T08:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:36:18","slug":"friday-update-308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/21\/friday-update-308\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday as I was typing my Thursday blog post, someone pointed out that Easter falls on 4\/20 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s gonna have a different kind of grass in their Easter basket?<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s the bunny gonna bring some of that wacky tobacky?<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s more interested in lighting up some doobage than eating Marshmallow Peeps or Cadbury Cr\u00e8me Eggs?<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/6ec9fc9eb58885a50b98725ba256efa8\/national-crunchy-taco-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Crunchy Taco Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatnow.com\/memphis\/restaurants\/the-gingers-bread-co-expanding-downtown-with-two-story-bakery-and-cafe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Ginger&#8217;s Bread &amp; Co. is coming to the Downtown core<\/a> in a two-story location next to City Market.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the 99 Front apartment building <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/residents-of-downtown-apartments-concerned-after-lead-paint-exposure\/article_2ea0c947-4adc-4930-b7db-03a8ea7664b0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">may have been exposed to lead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed upscale Downtown restaurant seeks a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ziprecruiter.com\/c\/The-Restaurant-Zone\/Job\/Sous-Chef-%7C-UPSCALE-RESTAURANT-DOWNTOWN-MEMPHIS!!\/-in-Memphis,TN?jid=9428b00306bf52d8&amp;lvk=eg1HUikCz4Gojm79MLw6Cg.--NklvMO3gZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sous chef<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/event\/8th-annual-walkin-in-memphis-celebration-for-world-down-syndrome-day\/https:\/\/choose901.com\/event\/8th-annual-walkin-in-memphis-celebration-for-world-down-syndrome-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take a walk across the river tonight<\/a> to support those with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-history-of-mud-island-from-troublesome-sandbar-to-memphis-attraction\/ar-AA1Bg7Nb?ocid=weather-verthp-feeds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the history of Mud Island<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10 Arkansas upset 7 seed and preseason number one Kansas last night. The Hogs next face 2 St. John\u2019s on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Break out your orange gingham shirts, Bozo wigs, and clown noses: 2 Tennessee has survived to reach the second round of the NCAA tournament. They&#8217;ll face 7 UCLA on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>GO MEMPHIS TIGERS! Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<p><em>This blog is free to read, but I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nVenmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday as I was typing my Thursday blog post, someone pointed out that Easter falls on 4\/20 this year. Who\u2019s gonna have a different kind of grass in their Easter basket? Who\u2019s the bunny gonna bring some of that wacky tobacky? Who\u2019s more interested in lighting up some doobage than eating Marshmallow Peeps or Cadbury &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/21\/friday-update-308\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday 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\/28495"}],"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=28495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28496,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495\/revisions\/28496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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