{"id":30252,"date":"2026-09-12T09:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=30252"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:32:43","slug":"saturday-update-343","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/12\/saturday-update-343\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Aunt’s Day<\/a> to all the aunts out there.<\/p>\n

Raleigh – You’re about to get a Little Petals location.<\/a> I love the Downtown one, the Peony Chicken and Cumin Beef being my faves.<\/p>\n

Yet another road closure is coming to South Front Street<\/a>, this one in the Mina\/Butler area through September 30.<\/p>\n

It’s Grizzlies Night at the Redbirds. The first 5000 fans get a replica jersey. First pitch is 6:05. Fireworks after the game.<\/p>\n

Deep Roots plays Earnestine & Hazel’s tonight 9-1, with Wave Form upstairs 9:30-1.<\/p>\n

I got some personal good news yesterday. I stayed at the Union Mission, and was standing in the dinner line when a supervisor approached me. “Effective the next night you stay here, you can sit with the handicapped in the dining room. You don’t have to stand in this line anymore.”<\/p>\n

That means 30-45 minutes a day when I won’t be on my feet. My tray will be brought to me at the table. The handicapped get served before the general-admission crowd, so I’ll have a little longer with my food (I’m a slow eater). It may mean I get better food on nights when a restaurant has a limited amount to donate. And when I’m done, I can leave my tray and drink cup on the table; I don’t have to carry them to the dishwasher window.<\/p>\n

YAY! For once I am looking forward to my next stay at the Mission – which’ll probably be Monday. I still have to pay $6 a night to get in.<\/p>\n

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

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Happy Aunt’s Day to all the aunts out there. Raleigh – You’re about to get a Little Petals location. I love the Downtown one, the Peony Chicken and Cumin Beef being my faves. Yet another road closure is coming to South Front Street, this one in the Mina\/Butler area through September 30. It’s Grizzlies Night … 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\/30252"}],"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=30252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30254,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30252\/revisions\/30254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}