{"id":30146,"date":"2026-08-01T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=30146"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:15:35","slug":"saturday-update-340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/01\/saturday-update-340\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ilovememphisblog.com\/events\/events-kids\/ruby-bridges-reading-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Ruby Bridges Reading Festival<\/a> is today at the civil rights museum. Free books, free health screenings, story readings, DJ.<\/p>\n<p>The old, boarded-up police station on Adams near Fourth <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/investigations\/county-considers-old-police-station-as-possible-home-for-juvenile-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could be a future home<\/a> for juvie court.<\/p>\n<p>If your pup likes water, bring them to Streetdog Foundation&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/givebutter.com\/streetdog-summer-splash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summer Splash<\/a> noon to 4 at Loflin Yard. Dog pools, splash pads, giveaways.<\/p>\n<p>Happy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/6b0b6eb4555ae18894e9f83f56072d84\/national-mustard-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Mustard Day<\/a>. Also, happy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/f1e0da31a2c60f1adbdf8ea6182befdc\/international-blues-music-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Blues Music Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There was a <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/downtown-apartment-fire-under-investigation-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fire<\/a> at an apartment complex at Vance and Orleans Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atvbt.com\/youre-weirder-than-you-think\/?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_source=morning_brew&amp;utm_medium=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How weird are you?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back soon 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 Ruby Bridges Reading Festival is today at the civil rights museum. Free books, free health screenings, story readings, DJ. The old, boarded-up police station on Adams near Fourth could be a future home for juvie court. If your pup likes water, bring them to Streetdog Foundation&#8217;s Summer Splash noon to 4 at Loflin Yard. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/01\/saturday-update-340\/\" 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\/30146"}],"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=30146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30148,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30146\/revisions\/30148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30146"}],"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! -->