{"id":29899,"date":"2026-05-09T08:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29899"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:56:02","slug":"saturday-update-336","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/09\/saturday-update-336\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Chess Club has a BBQ cappuccino for the month of May only.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis history lesson: <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/celebrate-250\/the-unlikely-rise-of-robert-r-church-first-african-american-millionaire-in-the-south\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The unlikely rise of Robert Church<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View <a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/ufo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newly declassified files<\/a> about UFO sightings<\/p>\n<p>The May Downtown Neighborhood Association meeting will be 5:30-7:30 PM Wednesday the 27th at Ghost River on South Main. Councilman JB Smiley will speak and there will be free beer, wine, and snacks for members.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Bonham brings a Led Zeppelin evening to Graceland Soundstage tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Bardog&#8217;s brunch special today 11-3 is a sliced ribeye sandwich with house-made chimichurri. I&#8217;ll be there at 11. See you there?<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow 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:\u00a0<\/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>Memphis Chess Club has a BBQ cappuccino for the month of May only. Memphis history lesson: The unlikely rise of Robert Church View newly declassified files about UFO sightings The May Downtown Neighborhood Association meeting will be 5:30-7:30 PM Wednesday the 27th at Ghost River on South Main. Councilman JB Smiley will speak and there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/09\/saturday-update-336\/\" 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\/29899"}],"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=29899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29901,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29899\/revisions\/29901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->