{"id":12559,"date":"2014-02-04T04:04:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/migueldavis\/?p=65"},"modified":"2014-02-04T04:04:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:04:11","slug":"65-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/65-2\/","title":{"rendered":"January’s Highlight Reel"},"content":{"rendered":"

January was an eventful month. Every month has been since moving to Detroit, but this one so much so that I’ve forgotten to blog until 2 hours before the deadline! Sorry, Deirdre, Shelley, and my snowflaky Midtown princess turned loyal peer editor at midnight Lyse Cook<\/a>. At a loss for inspiration and drained from karate chopping the achievement gap all week, I typed “awesome blog post ideas” into Google en espa\u00f1ol and out came: make a top 10 list.<\/p>\n

So here’s a top 10 from my event-full January, probably not in order of eventfulness:<\/p>\n

1) Went to Barcelona. Fell so in love with that place that I bought a shot glass that says “I <3 Barcelona".<\/p>\n

2) Went to Madrid. Is it cheating to make this a separate event on my list?<\/p>\n

3) Went to Toronto. It was -3 degrees, but gosh darn are the Canadians friendly!<\/p>\n

4) Joined a YMCA basketball league. They let me name the team… The Teddy Bears are currently 1-1.<\/p>\n

5) Cultured my fellow fellows with a D\u00eda de los Tres Reyes<\/a> party. My classroom behavior management skills were at an all-time low. I now have zero friends on my floor.<\/p>\n

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\n17+ Kings & Queens<\/p>\n

6) Tested a location for our first gluten free MeetUp in Detroit. Two out of the three of us left our work session with gluten poisoning. Scratched that one off the list.<\/p>\n

7) Got a fitbit. It has successfully shamed me into taking the eleven flights of stairs to my apartment and every time I try to cheat, my neighbors call me out on it and I end up taking the elevator back the way I came.<\/p>\n

8) The Walking Dead<\/a> is still not back. My Monday post-tutoring dinner and zombies with Alexandra<\/a> is slowly turning into dinner and drinks and philosophizing. The latter two somehow go well together.<\/p>\n

9) I committed to help my barber, Darnell, get his relationship coaching workshops off the ground by stepping up his digital marketing presence. He’s like a real-life Hitch<\/a>, and somehow an even fresher prince.<\/p>\n

10) Assisted in the surveying (and hopefully the preservation) of 19,000 historical parcels of land in Detroit.<\/p>\n

Encore, you say? 11) I’m a co-project manager for our homelessness challenge. As if eight-to-five, Monday through Thursday with Macro wasn’t busy enough!<\/p>\n

Another one? Fine. 12) My boss and I brewed a batch of hard cider. The first of many to come, soon to be sold at a restaurant, grocery store, and\/or sporting event near you.<\/p>\n

That’s all you get. Until next month, family, friends, and spammers commenting on my posts from abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January was an eventful month. Every month has been since moving to Detroit, but this one so much so that I’ve forgotten to blog until 2 hours before the deadline! Sorry, Deirdre, Shelley, and my snowflaky Midtown princess turned loyal peer editor at midnight Lyse Cook. At a loss for inspiration and drained from karate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}