{"id":29565,"date":"2026-02-07T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29565"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:21:18","slug":"saturday-update-326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/07\/saturday-update-326\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Guard deployment to Memphis has Hotel Indigo booked solid for the first 9 months of the year. While that’s great news for the hotel, Action News 5 reports that it’s not so great for Biscuits & Jams<\/a>, the restaurant on the ground floor of the building. B&J depends upon business from hotel guests, but the Guard brings its own breakfast. As a result, revenue is down 70%.<\/p>\n

Today is National Patty Melt Day<\/a>. Celebrate with a Smokey Melt from Huey’s or a Maddy Paddy from Momma’s.<\/p>\n

Once again the Grizzlies have a 9 PM game at Portland. TV: FanDuel Sports<\/p>\n

Bleacher Report gave the Grizzlies front office a grade of A-<\/a> on its trade deadline moves.<\/p>\n

If you want to excel at Scrabble, learn those 2-letter words<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Sporting News has a day-by-day Winter Olympics TV schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n

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The National Guard deployment to Memphis has Hotel Indigo booked solid for the first 9 months of the year. While that’s great news for the hotel, Action News 5 reports that it’s not so great for Biscuits & Jams, the restaurant on the ground floor of the building. B&J depends upon business from hotel guests, … Continue reading “Saturday update”<\/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\/29565"}],"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=29565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29567,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29565\/revisions\/29567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}