{"id":20137,"date":"2017-04-14T13:06:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T13:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=20137"},"modified":"2017-04-14T13:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T13:06:56","slug":"lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This city. Taught me never to settle.\u00a0It tested my mettle. Provided pressures that made me press on the brakes. Lessons\u00a0in levels. Lessons in every single mistake.\u00a0I questioned the struggle. But now\u00a0I&#8217;ve reached the final stage. I press on the pedal. I get it now, I get it now. Always had the talent I just figure out. How to get it how. I live. And build a blueprint. And pass it to my nieces and nephews so they can use it.<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s hard to be the change you want to see if you don&#8217;t see it. Seeing is only the half,\u00a0it&#8217;s even harder to believe. You see it&#8217;s\u00a0part of the path to doubt yourself at every turn. But every turn you take gives you the wisdom to discern. And the strength to lift the weight. When\u00a0everything is in disarray.\u00a0It took a while to reach a place where I don&#8217;t have to miss a payment. The irony of it all. Is all it took was some faith. Faith in the Lord. Faith in myself. Faith in my greatness.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/blog-bio-photo-300x300.gif\" alt=\"Greg Hardy\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/blog-bio-photo-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/blog-bio-photo-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/>Greg is an engineer and social change agent\u00a0with a talent for taking things apart and putting things\u00a0together. Follow on Instagram\/Twitter @stemavenue<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-navigation clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This city. Taught me never to settle.\u00a0It tested my mettle. Provided pressures that made me press on the brakes. Lessons\u00a0in levels. Lessons in every single mistake.\u00a0I questioned the struggle. But now\u00a0I&#8217;ve reached the final stage. I press on the pedal. I get it now, I get it now. Always had the talent I just figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":20168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137","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\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}