{"id":16848,"date":"2016-07-27T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T14:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=16848"},"modified":"2016-07-27T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T14:39:28","slug":"march-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/march-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"March: Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find the differences between various U.S. regions interesting. Before I moved to Detroit in July 2015 for Challenge Detroit (go Challenge!) I hadn&#8217;t lived in the Midwest since I was a baby. No one really told me, or prepared me for just how different the Midwest is from the East coast. In today&#8217;s edition of my Challenge Detroit blog, I will rattle off some of the first differences that immediately come to my head. Here goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have you ever heard of a fast food restaurant called\u00a0<em>Rally&#8217;s?\u00a0<\/em>Me neither. Apparently that&#8217;s\u00a0Checkers<em>\u00a0<\/em>in the Midwest. They also have Checkers. They have both and they are the same. That&#8217;s like if McDonald&#8217;s had a twin restaurant with a different name that served the exact same menu. I think it&#8217;s cool.<\/li>\n<li>The Midwest is flat. Like the land itself is flat, and the roads are wide. I&#8217;m more used to hills and slightly narrower roads, but maybe it&#8217;s just me.<\/li>\n<li>Everything is a lot less expensive in the Midwest.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve noticed in grocery stores&#8230;at least in Detroit, people call shopping carts &#8220;buggies&#8221;. I don&#8217;t remember hearing that before.<\/li>\n<li>People seem to dress a bit more casually in the Midwest.<\/li>\n<li>Beer is a bigger deal in the Midwest it seems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those were just a few. If I think of some more I&#8217;ll come back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find the differences between various U.S. regions interesting. Before I moved to Detroit in July 2015 for Challenge Detroit (go Challenge!) I hadn&#8217;t lived in the Midwest since I was a baby. No one really told me, or prepared me for just how different the Midwest is from the East coast. In today&#8217;s edition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}