{"id":22135,"date":"2017-12-19T21:36:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=22135"},"modified":"2017-12-19T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T21:36:07","slug":"home-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/home-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cAt the end of the day, it isn\u2019t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I\u2019m going and never have been before.\u201d \u2013 Warsan Shire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Home is a word my tongue has struggled to form. It is a word that means consistent, stable, reliable. A place that wraps around you like a blanket. A place that swaddles you with comfort and protects your smallest, sweetest secrets. Home is a place I know like that one friend of a friend who maybe came to a club with us on a hazy Saturday, but I don\u2019t really remember. We\u2019ve met and she was probably nice, but I could not tell you her name or where she lives. Home is a place I\u2019m not sure I want.<\/p>\n<p>I spent most of my adolescence in motion; from state-to-state, city-to-city, suburb-to-suburb, and then eventually country-to-country. Consistent. Stable. Reliable. All words I would never have used to describe my life or myself. Words that felt ill fitted on my anxious back. Instead, I preferred wild, adventurous, bold. I was the friend who always chose dare, the one that sprinted towards recklessness.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, I am still that friend, just now with one massive difference: routine. A year and a half in Detroit and I officially have a record high number of months spent in one city since I was 13. I am finding myself a regular at my favorite bars. I volunteer with the same organizations. I have neighbors whose names I know. There is a sense of monotony in my life I have not experienced in over a decade. It is both the most comforting feeling I have ever met and the most suffocating. I have never known myself in one place, standing still.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit is the place my grandparents were born and raised, where my mother was born and raised and where I was born. I am not sure that I am yet \u2018raised\u2019, as I find myself squirming, struggling to grow. I am, however, eager to see the role this city, and the consistency it is providing me, will play in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, it isn\u2019t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I\u2019m going and never have been before.\u201d \u2013 Warsan Shire Home is a word my tongue has struggled to form. It is a word that means consistent, stable, reliable. A place that wraps around you like a blanket. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22135","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\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}