{"id":12433,"date":"2013-12-01T04:44:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/kylaelisetaylor\/?p=23"},"modified":"2013-12-01T04:44:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:44:02","slug":"let-me-explain-no-new-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/let-me-explain-no-new-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Me Explain: No New Friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was asked the seemingly easy-to-answer question of &#8220;how do you juggle being back in Detroit?; you have new friends and places to be as well as your childhood friends, family and favorite activities to partake in.&#8221; As I sat and pondered my response, I really thought to myself&#8230; how DO I juggle so many responsibilities, opportunities and obligations since moving back to the D?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a native Detroiter, my family is home and always eager to occupy my weekends. Yet so are my friends that I had when I was in high school, waiting to catch up on life and get back to how things were in the past. Likewise, I have 30-some new friends who always have awesome opportunities from bar crawling to charity events\/service to plan ol&#8217; fun things to do as I begin to explore the city as a new adult-Detroiter (since I moved out when I was 17!). Finally, I have .. my JOB! Which takes more out of me than I thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WELL! When I consider this question, it leads me to believe that I need to expound upon each of these situations individually, as they require great time and care to let me explain. First, my FAMILY in the D&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was asked the seemingly easy-to-answer question of &#8220;how do you juggle being back in Detroit?; you have new friends and places to be as well as your childhood friends, family and favorite activities to partake in.&#8221; As I sat and pondered my response, I really thought to myself&#8230; how DO I juggle so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}