{"id":12456,"date":"2014-05-30T02:28:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T02:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/laurieasava\/?p=57"},"modified":"2014-05-30T02:28:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T02:28:41","slug":"pure-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/pure-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I was fortunate enough to travel home to visit my amazing family and friends. As I may have mentioned in the past, I am originally from Traverse City, Michigan, located 4 hours north of Detroit, in between two beautiful fresh water bays. As I toured wineries, ate good food and reminisced about the days growing up on the heart stealing peninsula,\u00a0I started to realize how many of my Challenge Detroit friends haven&#8217;t fully experienced all that Michigan has to offer. Whether a small trip to Lake Michigan or a sandy hike through the dunes, Michigan is a place that is never short of natural beauty. As a lighthouse lover, it is, of course, my paradise &#8211; but as a traveler, Michigan definitely belongs on \u201cMust See\u201d lists. I am not saying this to make you jealous of my home (although you might want to be), I just want to make sure that those who are moving to Detroit because of all it offers take a second to look at the bigger picture. Detroit sits in a pretty amazing place. A place where you can travel around the entire state on a lake (like seriously). So enough of me romanticizing, I will just leave some pictures to entice you to visit Pure Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>(P.S. I am not being paid to advertise for Pure Michigan, although I did work for them last year\u2026 so you tell me)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/laurieasava\/files\/2014\/05\/photo-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/laurieasava\/files\/2014\/05\/photo-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/laurieasava\/files\/2014\/05\/photo-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/laurieasava\/files\/2014\/05\/photo-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/laurieasava\/files\/2014\/05\/photo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/laurieasava\/files\/2014\/05\/71772_444574346363_936258_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"71772_444574346363_936258_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/laurieasava\/files\/2014\/05\/photo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/laurieasava\/files\/2014\/05\/photo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/laurieasava\/files\/2014\/05\/photo-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/laurieasava\/files\/2014\/05\/photo-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I was fortunate enough to travel home to visit my amazing family and friends. As I may have mentioned in the past, I am originally from Traverse City, Michigan, located 4 hours north of Detroit, in between two beautiful fresh water bays. As I toured wineries, ate good food and reminisced about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456","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\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}