{"id":19020,"date":"2017-02-01T04:54:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T04:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=19020"},"modified":"2017-02-01T04:54:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T04:54:12","slug":"hamtramck-city-within-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/hamtramck-city-within-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamtramck &#8211; City within a city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, Hamtramck, Michigan made national headlines when it became the first majority-Muslim city in the United States. Surrounded by Detroit, Hamtramck is a city within a city. Historically, Hamtramck was a neighborhood of Polish immigrants who flocked to the city\u2019s factories in the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Compared to surrounding areas, Hamtramck has a high population density as well as a high poverty rate. Recent census data shows the foreign born population is at 44%. The countries with the highest percentage of immigrants are Bangladesh, Yemen and Bosnia. These photos were taken at a rally in which immigrant and American born members of the Hamtramck and greater Detroit community came together to support each other.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, Hamtramck, Michigan made national headlines when it became the first majority-Muslim city in the United States. Surrounded by Detroit, Hamtramck is a city within a city. Historically, Hamtramck was a neighborhood of Polish immigrants who flocked to the city\u2019s factories in the early 20th century. Compared to surrounding areas, Hamtramck has a high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19020","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\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}