{"id":12986,"date":"2015-04-30T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brandenbufford\/?p=69"},"modified":"2015-04-30T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:39:03","slug":"april-showers-bring-may-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/april-showers-bring-may-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"April showers bring May flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As old man winter is exiting the stage, spring time is coming in quickly to take his place, thankfully.<\/p>\n<p>Spring time symbolically gives birth to new life, a refreshing time after enduring the harshness of the cold. It has definitely given me life again seeing my city in a beautiful light.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to riding my bike again, which will be a challenge in itself dodging the pot holes :-(.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brandenbufford\/files\/2015\/05\/Free-Spirit.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brandenbufford\/files\/2015\/05\/Free-Spirit-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Free Spirit\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I look forward to lazy Sundays on the riverfront and being able to aimlessly walk downtown as the sun kisses my melanin rich skin.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoying a DCFC game and watching\u00a0my co-fellow, <a>Ezekiel Harris<\/a>\u00a0compete and\u00a0announce the play-by-play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brandenbufford\/files\/2015\/05\/DCFC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brandenbufford\/files\/2015\/05\/DCFC-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"DCFC\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out free movies in Midtown<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brandenbufford\/files\/2015\/05\/Wednight-Movies.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brandenbufford\/files\/2015\/05\/Wednight-Movies-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Wednight Movies\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And enjoy the worlds best International Firework Show<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brandenbufford\/files\/2015\/05\/o-DETROIT-FIREWORKS-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brandenbufford\/files\/2015\/05\/o-DETROIT-FIREWORKS-facebook-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"o-DETROIT-FIREWORKS-facebook\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brandenbufford\/files\/2014\/10\/Bagwell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22\" class=\" wp-image-22\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brandenbufford\/files\/2014\/10\/Bagwell.jpg\" alt=\"Follow me on Twitter\/IG: @BuffBagleyDet \" width=\"203\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Follow me on Twitter\/IG: @BuffBagleyDet<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As old man winter is exiting the stage, spring time is coming in quickly to take his place, thankfully. Spring time symbolically gives birth to new life, a refreshing time after enduring the harshness of the cold. It has definitely given me life again seeing my city in a beautiful light. I look forward to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}