{"id":14384,"date":"2016-01-13T15:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=14384"},"modified":"2016-01-13T15:47:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:47:34","slug":"the-ramblings-powerball-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/the-ramblings-powerball-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ramblings: Powerball Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There are two chain restaurants that I\u2019m surprised have yet to open a location in the City of Detroit: Chipotle and Panera.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There are two activities in this world that seem too easy \u2013 like there should be more hoops to jump through in order to accomplish them: buying guns and making humans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If Staten Island and the Underground Railroad served as the beginnings of American dreams, the factories of Detroit served as\u00a0the realization\u00a0of those dreams.<\/li>\n<li><em>Fellow Idea: \u00a0The Coney Island Improvement Grant<\/em>\n<p>With all the buzz around new restaurants in the City of Detroit, I\u2019ve been trying to think of a way to highlight the thousands (at least it seems like it) of coney islands in Detroit, all of which serve amazing food and have been doing so for years. Couldn\u2019t we find civic\/corporate\/foundational support for grants supporting Detroit\u2019s coney islands, the food staples of so many different areas of the city? These locations could apply for funds to undertake\u00a0site improvements or beautification, or even create opportunities for long-time owners to initiate some kind of community-focused engagement with their neighborhood customers. Let&#8217;s re-invest in Detroit&#8217;s community coneys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>One of my favorite life lessons of 2015 came from Big Uncle Pete: The best coffee you are going to encounter in this life is the coffee served after dinner at Italian weddings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two chain restaurants that I\u2019m surprised have yet to open a location in the City of Detroit: Chipotle and Panera. There are two activities in this world that seem too easy \u2013 like there should be more hoops to jump through in order to accomplish them: buying guns and making humans. If Staten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384","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\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}