{"id":28529,"date":"2025-04-04T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28529"},"modified":"2025-04-04T09:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:11:04","slug":"friday-update-309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/04\/friday-update-309\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">The National Civil Rights Museum will present <a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilrightsmuseum.org\/april-4th-commemoration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Remembering Dr. King: The Man. The Movement. The Moment<\/a> from 5 to 7 PM today. Performances, tributes, a keynote speaker, and the changing of the balcony wreath with a moment of silence at 6:01. This hybrid event is scheduled for the museum\u2019s courtyard and will be moved inside in case of rain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4}}\">All Memphis Public Libraries branches will be closed today for Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Day. I will say it once again: THAT IS NOT WHAT DR. KING WOULD HAVE WANTED. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">NCAA men\u2019s Final Four &#8211; Saturday on CBS <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:101,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Florida vs. Auburn 5:09<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:101,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Houston vs. Duke 7:49<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>News of the 409 S. Main event space ghosting a booked wedding has made it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-14569765\/sobbing-bride-ghosted-wedding-venue-learns-truth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">across the pond<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former Daily News office building on Jefferson is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colliers.com\/en\/properties\/historic-2-story-office-building-in-downtown-memphis\/usa-189-jefferson-ave-memphis-tn-38103-usa\/usa1148903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oceanographicmagazine.com\/news\/no-fishing-zones-deal-offers-endangered-african-penguin-new-hope\/?ck_subscriber_id=3201412392&amp;utm_source=convertkit&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=A%20military%20food%20makeover%20-%2017161098\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There are penguins in Africa.<\/a> I had no idea.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul\u00a0Allen 50 years ago today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/apr\/03\/bruce-springsteen-to-release-seven-lost-albums-in-june?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce Springsteen will release 7 lost albums in June.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vintage901.org\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vintage901: The Ultimate Wine Experience on the River<\/a> is this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Weather permitting, I&#8217;ll be back tomorrow.<\/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>The National Civil Rights Museum will present Remembering Dr. King: The Man. The Movement. The Moment from 5 to 7 PM today. Performances, tributes, a keynote speaker, and the changing of the balcony wreath with a moment of silence at 6:01. This hybrid event is scheduled for the museum\u2019s courtyard and will be moved inside &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/04\/friday-update-309\/\" 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\/28529"}],"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=28529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28530,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28529\/revisions\/28530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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