{"id":12379,"date":"2015-03-01T03:43:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T03:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/jonathanganci\/?p=39"},"modified":"2015-03-01T03:43:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T03:43:22","slug":"resetting-with-six-months-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/resetting-with-six-months-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Resetting With Six Months To Go."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been tougher than I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Not the job, or challenges, but physically being in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>From playing sports with old friends and seeing family in the suburbs to visiting my fianc\u00e9 in Chicago every other week, I feel like I haven\u2019t been here much. It\u2019s hit me this week, as February dwindled down, that there\u2019s only 6 months left in this fellowship and that I feel like I haven\u2019t been fully present in what I\u2019ve been doing here. I think since I\u2019ve been pulled in many directions and spent so much time outside the city, I haven\u2019t felt like I a true Detroiter. Sure, everything I own is in Detroit, and my monthly bills list the city as my address, but I am not sure this has become home yet.<\/p>\n<p>That means there\u2019s only six more months to change that. Only six more months to immerse myself in a city where I\u2019ve always wanted to work. Only six months left to work with this group of amazing people, to build strong friendships, to work in this unique space and help transform a city I love. That\u2019s not that much time when you think about it.<\/p>\n<p>But I have a plan.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I thought about what I listed as things I wanted to get out of this Challenge Detroit experience. I wrote down things like lasting friendships, growth in leadership skills, exposure to different industries, an ability to impact the lives of others, a deeper connection to the City, and the ability to act as a bridge for people that don\u2019t know Detroit or haven\u2019t been here in quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>Most of this is happening through the fellowship, but I thought about how could I personally make sure that at the end of these 6 months these things happened.<\/p>\n<p>Then it hit me. I\u2019ve always wanted to do a photo project during my year here, but never knew the right subject or how I should go about producing it until one day I woke up with an idea.<\/p>\n<p>There are 143 square miles in Detroit (if you round up, and include water). What better way to immerse yourself in the city then through photography that takes you to every corner of Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s my plan. Six months to take at least (probably many more) 143 pictures of this city, one in every square mile. To document the people, places, buildings, spaces, and so many other things that make this city amazing.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be updating my photography website, and writing another blog as I do it. So stay tuned for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my first shot for it, a photo of Detroit Native and Challenge Detroiter, Brandon Bufford. More on this shot a little later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/jonathanganci\/files\/2015\/03\/IMG_4119.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/jonathanganci\/files\/2015\/03\/IMG_4119-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4119\" width=\"231\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1 down. 142 to go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been tougher than I thought. Not the job, or challenges, but physically being in Detroit. From playing sports with old friends and seeing family in the suburbs to visiting my fianc\u00e9 in Chicago every other week, I feel like I haven\u2019t been here much. It\u2019s hit me this week, as February dwindled down, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379","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\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}