{"id":12076,"date":"2012-12-06T14:32:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T14:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/betsyberens\/?p=18"},"modified":"2012-12-06T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T14:32:17","slug":"livedetroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/livedetroit\/","title":{"rendered":"#LiveDetroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since moving to Detroit, I have fielded a lot of questions about city living. While I tried my best to counter preconceived notions about Detroit, overriding decades of \u201ccity in ruins\u201d imagery is no easy task! It\u2019s hard for many to conceptualize Detroit as a thriving place, but living here has taught me differently.<\/p>\n<p>I moved downtown next to Comerica Park in late-August and I don\u2019t think I could have selected a better location or time to move to Detroit. Living downtown has allowed me to see the ever-changing Detroit landscape right up close. Within the first few months of living here, I experienced the Tigers in the playoffs, hundreds of new residents moving downtown, and new businesses and restaurants sprouting up throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p>There is never a shortage of things to do. I run on the RiverWalk, go to concerts, eat at fantastic restaurants, and do what people typically do in cities. But Detroit offers something unique that I don\u2019t think I could experience anywhere else. It is rebuilding and reinventing itself so quickly that I have literally seen the city change and evolve in the three months since I\u2019ve been here. Can\u2019t wait to see what happens next!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/betsyberens\/files\/2012\/12\/My-Infographic5.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/betsyberens\/files\/2012\/12\/My-Infographic5-455x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since moving to Detroit, I have fielded a lot of questions about city living. While I tried my best to counter preconceived notions about Detroit, overriding decades of \u201ccity in ruins\u201d imagery is no easy task! It\u2019s hard for many to conceptualize Detroit as a thriving place, but living here has taught me differently. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}