{"id":12135,"date":"2012-12-17T02:56:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T02:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/carolinedobbins\/?p=23"},"modified":"2012-12-17T02:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T02:56:56","slug":"playing-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/playing-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who ever says there’s not much to do in Detroit is sorely mistaken. \u00a0Just recently I had to choose<\/em> which event to attend on a Saturday evening. \u00a0Thats right there were just too many things for me and my friends to do in one evening. Since it’s the holiday season we chose to\u00a0experience\u00a0Detroit’s 40th Annual Noel Nights.<\/p>\n

Noel Nights was certainly a night to remember. \u00a0It is an evening celebration of the holiday to help everyone get a jump start on their holiday shopping, and get into the holiday spirit. Hosted in Midtown, most art\u00a0galleries, small businesses, and shops open up and welcome in the community. Sounds of feet fill the streets, while music and great smells billow out of the store fronts. \u00a0It was a night that reminded me how great Detroit really is. I spent the evening with other Fellows, Bithiah Lee, Jason Zogg and Marlo Staples striding up and down Woodward, Cass and other side streets popping in and out of shops, discovering new places to eat and shop and\u00a0experiences\u00a0the greatness that the city has to offer.<\/p>\n

Just a few of the gems include Nora<\/a>, City Bird<\/a>, Green\u00a0Garage<\/a>, the DIA<\/a> and The Peacock Room<\/a>. \u00a0These are staples in the Detroit community are great places to\u00a0experience\u00a0the true revitalization of city.<\/p>\n

I look forward to many more Noel Nights<\/a> as I continue to support the efforts of the city and the people that make it great each and every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who ever says there’s not much to do in Detroit is sorely mistaken. \u00a0Just recently I had to choose which event to attend on a Saturday evening. \u00a0Thats right there were just too many things for me and my friends to do in one evening. Since it’s the holiday season we chose to\u00a0experience\u00a0Detroit’s 40th Annual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,75,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detroit","category-live","category-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}