{"id":12462,"date":"2012-12-20T17:01:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/leighannulrey\/?p=21"},"modified":"2012-12-20T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T17:01:32","slug":"corned-beef-golden-eggs-and-19th-century-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/corned-beef-golden-eggs-and-19th-century-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Corned Beef, Golden Eggs, and 19th Century Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading this blog you might think that the day I describe below is impossible, but I tell you that it is not! I experienced this Saturday not long ago and it was an amazing day of experiencing just a few of the gems of Detroit.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">An Example of a Saturday in Detroit:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00 AM<\/strong> \u2013 Brunch at Detroit One Coney Island<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Order the corned beef hash, it\u2019s homemade and amazing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>11:30 AM<\/strong> \u2013 Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Detroit Institute of Arts<\/a> (DIA)\u2026for FREE<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Portrait of Postman Roulin; Vincent Willem van Gough<a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/leighannulrey\/files\/2012\/12\/Greenfield-Village.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/leighannulrey\/files\/2012\/12\/Greenfield-Village-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Thinker; Auguste Rodin<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Fruit, Carafe and Glass; Pablo Picasso<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>12:15 PM<\/strong> \u2013 See the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faberg%C3%A9_egg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faberg\u00e9<\/a> exhibit while you\u2019re at the DIA<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gaze at Imperial Russian golden eggs<\/li>\n<li>Ponder on what it would be like to have the world\u2019s most beautiful umbrella handle<\/li>\n<li>Learn that Nicholas II actually disliked Peter the Great<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1:45 PM<\/strong> \u2013 Use my membership pass to explore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehenryford.org\/village\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greenfield Village<\/a> at the Henry Ford Museum<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See the engine used by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Edison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Edison<\/a> to light a New York block for the first time<\/li>\n<li>Ride in a real <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ford_Model_T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Model T<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tour <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harvey_Samuel_Firestone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvey Firestone\u2019s<\/a> actual childhood farm right there in the village; it literally is the farm from Ohio with the correct seeds and animals back-bred from 1882!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6:30 PM<\/strong> \u2013 Head to Corktown for drinks and dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/slowsbarbq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slows BBQ<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m not sure I can adequately describe this place, you\u2019ll just have to go<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re a vegetarian, don\u2019t go here, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevarestaurant.com\/detroit-menu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seva<\/a> instead!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading this blog you might think that the day I describe below is impossible, but I tell you that it is not! I experienced this Saturday not long ago and it was an amazing day of experiencing just a few of the gems of Detroit. An Example of a Saturday in Detroit: 10:00 AM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462","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\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}