{"id":30050,"date":"2026-06-28T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=30050"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:00:38","slug":"sunday-update-260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/28\/sunday-update-260\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE living legend of the competitive eating world, Joey Chestnut, will be at AutoZone Park on Saturday, July 18 for some eatin&#8217; and competin&#8217;, his first event since Coney Island on July 4. His opponent&#8230; I dunno&#8230; maybe YOU??? All you have to do is win one of the prelim events, to be held at the ballpark<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday, July 2 &#8211; 10-inch pizzas by Exlines<\/li>\n<li>Friday, July 3 &#8211; Memphis sliders by Slider Inn<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, July 4 &#8211; Grandma&#8217;s meatballs by Aldo&#8217;s Pizza Pies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/memphis\/news\/redbirds-to-hold-eating-contests-ahead-of-chestnut-visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More info \/ register<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning I saw a squirrel fall out of one of the Court Square trees from about 25 feet. You know the way cats always land on their feet? Squirrels, not so much. He was out cold for a minute, then woke up and scampered back up the tree.<\/p>\n<p>The Brass Door will be closed today to let its staff catch up on rest. It&#8217;ll be open Monday and Tuesday.<\/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>THE living legend of the competitive eating world, Joey Chestnut, will be at AutoZone Park on Saturday, July 18 for some eatin&#8217; and competin&#8217;, his first event since Coney Island on July 4. His opponent&#8230; I dunno&#8230; maybe YOU??? All you have to do is win one of the prelim events, to be held at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/28\/sunday-update-260\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday 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\/30050"}],"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=30050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30053,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30050\/revisions\/30053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30050"}],"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! -->