{"id":28913,"date":"2025-07-25T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28913"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:55:21","slug":"frupdate-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/25\/frupdate-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Frupdate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qAmzvTbqFDM?si=2DlU2gHbnaUSpZZG\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, brother. You were never my favorite professional wrestler, but you changed the industry forever, and that&#8217;s a fact, jack. What cha gonna do, heaven, what cha gonna do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meemphis wrestling icon Jerry &#8220;The King&#8221; Lawler and announcer Dave Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/07\/25\/jerry-lawler-dave-brown-react-hulk-hogans-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reacted<\/a> to Hulk Hogan&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/tax-free-weekend-like-christmas-in-july-for-tn-stores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee&#8217;s tax-free weekend<\/a> for computers under $1500 and clothing and school supplies under $100.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/glorilla-arrested-on-drug-charges-in-georgia-released-on-bond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GloRilla was arrested on felony marijuana possession charges<\/a> in Georgia this week, but her show tonight at FedExForum will go on.<\/p>\n<p>Action News 5 spoke to the cast of The Wiz on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/07\/24\/wiz-performers-speak-production-returning-901\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what performing in Memphis means to them<\/a>. Choose901 has <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/your-guide-to-experiencing-the-wiz-in-memphis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a complete guide<\/a> to taking a Wiz in Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/0161a65f6bd42ce49d36267c268757ad\/national-wine-and-cheese-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Wine and Cheese Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can be an advocate for the homeless if you&#8217;re hired for <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/job\/room-in-the-inn-memphis-memphis-80-room-in-the-inn-guest-advocate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this full-time position at Room in the Inn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis Rap Tour seeks a <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/job\/memphis-rap-tour-inc-memphis-80-tour-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tour guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis City Council seeks a <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/job\/memphis-city-council-memphis-80-legislative-analyst-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislative analyst<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/downtownmemphis.com\/do\/wagging-in-memphis-beale-street-dog-fashion-parade-and-after-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dog fashion parade<\/a> on Beale Street Saturday from 4 to 7.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyer&#8217;s Michael Donahue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/hotel-pontotoc-re-opening-in-mid-august\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has a look<\/a> at the 10 rooms of Hotel Pontotoc as well as its bar The Dame. The boutique hotel is set to open mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>Back sometime this weekend with more news.<\/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>Rest in peace, brother. You were never my favorite professional wrestler, but you changed the industry forever, and that&#8217;s a fact, jack. What cha gonna do, heaven, what cha gonna do&#8230; Meemphis wrestling icon Jerry &#8220;The King&#8221; Lawler and announcer Dave Brown reacted to Hulk Hogan&#8217;s death. It&#8217;s Tennessee&#8217;s tax-free weekend for computers under $1500 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/25\/frupdate-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frupdate&#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\/28913"}],"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=28913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28915,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28913\/revisions\/28915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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