{"id":12603,"date":"2013-12-30T16:47:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T16:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/royyewah\/?p=34"},"modified":"2013-12-30T16:47:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T16:47:41","slug":"tis-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/tis-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Tis the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahh December has been great.\u00a0 As the cold weather approaches, Detroit seems to have a warming effect on outsiders.\u00a0 It is great to see people coming in to support the Lions, and RedWings, but also to enjoy the winter festivities happening in Detroit, but how do we get them to stay and explore\/contribute to the city as a whole?\u00a0 Being downtown for the annual tree light ceremony was a sight to see because, despite the cold weather\u00a0 there were so many people willing to take a break from their lives either in the city or outside of it to enjoy the ceremony together as one conjoined unit.\u00a0 This is the type of unity that badly needs to be rebirthed in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/royyewah\/files\/2013\/12\/photo-2-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-35\" style=\"width: 223px;height: 308px\" alt=\"photo 2 (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/royyewah\/files\/2013\/12\/photo-2-2-225x300.jpg\" width=\"273\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/royyewah\/files\/2013\/12\/photo-1-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-36\" style=\"width: 323px;height: 297px\" alt=\"photo 1 (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/royyewah\/files\/2013\/12\/photo-1-2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"287\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of this positive attention from the winter festivities of course caught the attention of the media and they for once had good things to say about the city in Wall Street Journal\u2019s article <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Billionaire\u2019s Buying Spree Starts to Spread<\/span>.\u00a0 This article talks about how Dan Gilbert\u2019s buying of commercial buildings strategy is starting to have an effect on outsiders looking to invest in the city as well.\u00a0 This could huge for the city economically and pushes Detroit closer towards revitalization.<\/p>\n<p>2013 is just the start; I\u2019ll talk to you all next year where the future looks bright,<\/p>\n<p>Roy T. Yewah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahh December has been great.\u00a0 As the cold weather approaches, Detroit seems to have a warming effect on outsiders.\u00a0 It is great to see people coming in to support the Lions, and RedWings, but also to enjoy the winter festivities happening in Detroit, but how do we get them to stay and explore\/contribute to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-beginnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603","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\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}