{"id":28837,"date":"2025-07-05T07:41:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T12:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28837"},"modified":"2025-07-05T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:10:09","slug":"saturday-update-304","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/05\/saturday-update-304\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is National Bikini Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Lobbyist will have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/1AwJrCu4DT\/?mibextid=wwXIfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bastille Day dinner<\/a> Thursday, July 10 at 6:30 PM. Four-course meal with fine wines and classic French cocktails. $100 plus tax and grat. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bastille_Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is Bastille Day?<\/a> I wonder if one of the courses will be cake, since Queen Marie Antoinette allegedly said &#8220;Let them eat cake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tonight The Lobbyist will have live music by Southern Sky and a backyard-themed menu. Frozen drink specials all day. Happy hour 5 to 7.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Flyer has a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/brew-bites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local breweries that have installed their own kitchens<\/a>, including Wiseacre Downtown\u2019s Little Bettie pizza kitchen as well as the kitchens at Memphis Filling Station and Flyway Brewing.<\/p>\n<p>Wiseacre is hiring a front of house manager, line cook, dishwasher, and<br \/>\nassistant kitchen manager. They also have a Nashville-based sales position.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the fireworks at the Redbirds last night, they&#8217;ll have them again after tonight&#8217;s game vs. the Nashville Sounds. First pitch is 6:35. The first 1500 fans get a Redbirds basketball jersey inspired by the City of Memphis flag.<\/p>\n<p>Joey Chestnut is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/07\/04\/miki-sudo-wins-11th-womens-title-annual-nathans-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest\/\">back on top<\/a> of the competitive eating world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/1st-sunday-jazz-jam-pop-up-series-tickets-1234196046599?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Sunday Jazz Jam<\/a> comes to the Center for Southern Folklore tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/690237760646004\/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22discovery_local_tab%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22bookmark%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWE 2K video game tournament<\/a> with a $500 cash prize today at 2 at the Ghost River taproom at Main and Crump. Live Memphis wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\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>Today is National Bikini Day. The Lobbyist will have a Bastille Day dinner Thursday, July 10 at 6:30 PM. Four-course meal with fine wines and classic French cocktails. $100 plus tax and grat. What is Bastille Day? I wonder if one of the courses will be cake, since Queen Marie Antoinette allegedly said &#8220;Let them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/05\/saturday-update-304\/\" 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\/28837"}],"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=28837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28839,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28837\/revisions\/28839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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