{"id":12410,"date":"2013-10-31T03:54:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T03:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/kirstenbondalapati\/?p=23"},"modified":"2013-10-31T03:54:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T03:54:30","slug":"a-parents-visit-to-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/a-parents-visit-to-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Parents&#8217; Visit to Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Last weekend, I had both my parents visit my apartment in Midtown and take a trip down to Eastern Market. This was not just any chilly fall morning for me, as my parents actively avoid Detroit and have been known, from time to time, to talk that negative talk we all know so well surrounding Detroit. They came to visit to make certain I was living in a safe area and to see that I am responsible enough to find a suitable place to live, just as they had done with my brother two years ago when he moved downtown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">My parents were more than happy with my place, and they both thoroughly enjoyed the bustling vibes\u00a0and low prices offered by Eastern Market. I was content about the visit and chalked it up as a success\u00a0as we capped off the afternoon with a long lunch at Zeff\u2019s Coney (they have\u00a0an\u00a0excellent classic club,\u00a0for all my turkey and bacon lovers out there). What made the visit so meaningful to me was something\u00a0my mother said on the drive\u00a0home after lunch. We were passing through Brush Park and Midtown,\u00a0and I had been giving a mini tour of various developments in the area (e.g. Wing\u2019s Stadium, big parent-pleaser), and my mother began reflecting on how amazed she was at the state of Detroit. She said,\u00a0\u201cYou know, I am really just so happy to see all the signs on these buildings saying things like, \u2018in development.\u2019 I thought it was all talk what\u2019s going on in Detroit, but its not. I am really impressed.\u201d\u00a0She went on to express how excited she is for me that I could be a part of something real, something important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While I speak from one experience with my own mother, I\u2019m confident in saying it\u2019s possible to reduce the stigma attached to Detroit. And even if it is clich\u00e9, it truly does seem that the more I talk about and share my life in Detroit with the people I love, the more open and excited they themselves become about experiencing the city.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/blog\/www.detroiteasternmarket.com\/page.php\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24  \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/kirstenbondalapati\/files\/2013\/10\/easternmarket-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">www.detroiteasternmarket.com\/page.php<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Last weekend, I had both my parents visit my apartment in Midtown and take a trip down to Eastern Market. This was not just any chilly fall morning for me, as my parents actively avoid Detroit and have been known, from time to time, to talk that negative talk we all know so well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12410","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}