{"id":13068,"date":"2015-07-01T00:46:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/kennethandejeski\/?p=179"},"modified":"2015-07-01T00:46:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T00:46:29","slug":"from-my-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/from-my-balcony\/","title":{"rendered":"From My Balcony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-180 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/kennethandejeski\/files\/2015\/07\/20141014_073900-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"20141014_073900\" width=\"438\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Giants slumber beneath the shadows they once cast.<br \/>\nMonoliths, they eagerly await the dawn.<br \/>\nThe night has been long, hard and dreary.<br \/>\nIn their wait, they have grown cold.<br \/>\nResolute as they may be, many are void of the life that once filled them.<br \/>\nLacking purpose, they have found none.<br \/>\nIn neglect, they have found decay.<br \/>\nThrough your eyes and words, they have found their reflection.<br \/>\nOnce named Prosperity, Innovation and Opportunity.<br \/>\nYou now call them Blight, Rust and Ruin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The son rises, a child of its former self.<br \/>\nYawning, he stretches his ribbons of light from East Jefferson to Southwest.<br \/>\nWarmth. Everything becomes visible once again.<br \/>\nDetroit is anew.<br \/>\nI view this rebirth from my balcony and breathe this city into my lungs.<br \/>\nCapillaries open, red blood cells flowing,I absorb this purpose into my body and set out to face a new day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Every opportunity that lends itself to me is mine. It is shared.<br \/>\nIt belongs to all of us here, making a difference.<br \/>\nWe pour our souls into this concrete mixer that is progress.<br \/>\nSlow, satisfying progress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For I am here to say nice things.<br \/>\nI am here to say nice things.<br \/>\nAs difficult as that may be&#8230;No, not because this is Detroit,<br \/>\nbut because it is human nature.<br \/>\nIt is human nature to decry and negate. To put down,<br \/>\nand put up this arbitrary perspective that mine is better and yours is worse.<br \/>\nDetroit is no Chicago. Detroit is no New York.<br \/>\nDetroit is Detroit and it would serve you well to remember that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The next time that Detroit touches your tongue, and leaves its gritty, resilient taste on your lips, I want you to smile.<br \/>\nFrom my balcony,\u00a0the horizon is always visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giants slumber beneath the shadows they once cast. Monoliths, they eagerly await the dawn. The night has been long, hard and dreary. In their wait, they have grown cold. Resolute as they may be, many are void of the life that once filled them. Lacking purpose, they have found none. In neglect, they have found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068","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\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}