{"id":30009,"date":"2026-06-15T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=30009"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:11:51","slug":"monday-update-305","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/15\/monday-update-305\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve ever been out on the Main Street Mall in the 6 AM hour, you may have seen a white-haired man in a LifeBlood shirt out jogging. His name is Shaun Bernard and he was recently recognized<\/a> nationally as a hero,\u00a0 having made over 500 donations of blood, plasma, and platelets over his lifetime. The next time you see him out running, tell him thank you.<\/p>\n

Friday is Juneteenth. Sunday is Father’s Day.<\/p>\n

There will be nightly lane closures<\/a> on the I-40 bridge this week.<\/p>\n

WREG has video<\/a> from South Main Songwriter Fest.<\/p>\n

Everyone, I’m sorry for the lack of posts over the weekend. I had another bout of food poisoning, but also my Parkinson’s continues to get worse. Thank you for your patience. I have some marvelous friends and supporters. If I seem frustrated at times, it’s frustration with myself.<\/p>\n

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If you’ve ever been out on the Main Street Mall in the 6 AM hour, you may have seen a white-haired man in a LifeBlood shirt out jogging. His name is Shaun Bernard and he was recently recognized nationally as a hero,\u00a0 having made over 500 donations of blood, plasma, and platelets over his lifetime. … Continue reading “Monday 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\/30009"}],"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=30009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30011,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30009\/revisions\/30011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}