{"id":20071,"date":"2017-04-13T14:10:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=20071"},"modified":"2017-04-13T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:10:32","slug":"couch-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/couch-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Couch House"},"content":{"rendered":"

A world of travelers, and a new way of getting around:<\/p>\n

\"https:\/\/www.generosity.com\/community-fundraising\/couch-house-detroit\"

Couch House<\/p><\/div>\n

This weekend I sat down with a woman named AISHA BLAKE<\/a>\u00a0who has been a part of a COUCH SURFING<\/a>\u00a0community. \u00a0This is the style of living where you travel to different cities around the globe and stay on their couches until you move onto the next, just as people open up their houses for others to do the same. \u00a0 Aisha has recently\u00a0settled in Detroit. \u00a0 She lives a bike ride away from downtown and is opening her house to visitors yearning to see Detroit, Michigan. \u00a0The COUCH HOUSE<\/a>\u00a0that Aisha is opening is a way to bring interesting, talented, and community-based individuals into Detroit. \u00a0 \u00a0Aisha hopes to show visitors the Detroit that some passers-by wouldn’t see, which could encourage others to come and even settle in this area.<\/p>\n

I found Aisha to be a naturally welcoming person and I aspire to be more like the couch surfing community because they so readily open their doors to persons in need. \u00a0 More than that, they life their lives based on connections to different people instead of by debts of money. \u00a0Couch house is an important step to showing the sides of the city that can change the narrative for visitors or people looking at Detroit. \u00a0 Many houses that allow couch surfing may or may not be around the area, but this house specifically would serve a s a hub for that community and others alike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A world of travelers, and a new way of getting around: This weekend I sat down with a woman named AISHA BLAKE\u00a0who has been a part of a COUCH SURFING\u00a0community. \u00a0This is the style of living where you travel to different cities around the globe and stay on their couches until you move onto the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071","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\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}