{"id":20305,"date":"2017-05-01T04:31:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T04:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=20305"},"modified":"2017-05-01T04:31:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T04:31:35","slug":"what-gives-me-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/what-gives-me-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"What gives me hope today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of April showers means lots of May flowers.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/slowroll.bike\/index.php?bypassCookie=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slow Roll<\/a> is back tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>The fact that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sunriseclubdetroit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">club <\/a>purely devoted to watching the sun rise convenes in Detroit for the first time this week.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Cinco de Mayo falls on a Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The cult-like following of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/dogspotting\/?fref=nf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dogspotting Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A drive that went by more quickly than it usually does.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of a shorter commute this week.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the people that I love doing what they love.<\/p>\n<p>Grabbing a beer with old friends and slipping easily back into a conversation we began years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Exciting new projects professionally and personally.<\/p>\n<p>Making a connection that could lead to another, and another.<\/p>\n<p>Character-based microlending and the fact that the microloans get repaid.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to a small business owner talk about her goals and dreams for her business.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to her talk about how her blessings.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to her talk about her goals and dreams for her children.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to her talk about her children&#8217;s blessings.<\/p>\n<p>People whose job it is to help others.<\/p>\n<p>People who see opportunity where others don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>People who love Detroit so much that they move to it.<\/p>\n<p>People who move to Detroit and then fall in love with it.<\/p>\n<p>A gentle reminder that I am a part of something.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the fifth time around, I sort of actually feel like I know what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of April showers means lots of May flowers. The fact that Slow Roll is back tomorrow! The fact that a club purely devoted to watching the sun rise convenes in Detroit for the first time this week. The fact that Cinco de Mayo falls on a Friday. The cult-like following of the Dogspotting Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305","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\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}