{"id":13236,"date":"2015-09-22T04:12:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T04:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=13236"},"modified":"2015-09-22T04:12:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T04:12:13","slug":"whats-your-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/whats-your-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a recent transplant from the West Coast (of Michigan!) and if you&#8217;ve never been, I highly suggest you make a pilgrimage to visit Lake Michigan. It&#8217;s Awesome! Before attending Hope College in Holland, MI, I grew up in Pinckney which is located approximately 55 minutes northwest of Detroit.\u00a0So far, I think\u00a0Jeannette Rice of the Detroit Experience Factory has said it best,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t agree more. Detroit is a big city, but it feels like a small town &#8211; home.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in visiting Detroit, but don&#8217;t know where to start, check out the Detroit Experience Factory. They provide free tours of the city. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WeKnowDetroit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WeKnowDetroit\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Here are a few pictures from my first days in Detroit!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16824 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151025_083217-e1469600727719-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20151025_083217\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16812 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20150926_214245-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150926_214245\" width=\"570\" height=\"571\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16808 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20150710_232536-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"20150710_232536\" width=\"566\" height=\"319\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16810 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20150904_100544-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"20150904_100544\" width=\"564\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16811 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20150911_101145-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"20150911_101145\" width=\"591\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a recent transplant from the West Coast (of Michigan!) and if you&#8217;ve never been, I highly suggest you make a pilgrimage to visit Lake Michigan. It&#8217;s Awesome! Before attending Hope College in Holland, MI, I grew up in Pinckney which is located approximately 55 minutes northwest of Detroit.\u00a0So far, I think\u00a0Jeannette Rice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}