{"id":12617,"date":"2013-12-31T00:15:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T00:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/ruthmclachlin\/?p=44"},"modified":"2013-12-31T00:15:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T00:15:38","slug":"ruin-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/ruin-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruin Porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/human-parts\/81834d797aeb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"Ruins\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/ruthmclachlin\/files\/2014\/01\/Ruins1.png\" width=\"435\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again facing a dearth for words, I would like to take this opportunity to direct my readers to a particularly insightful reflection written by a first time visitor to Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/human-parts\/81834d797aeb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Ruin Porn Means To a City Rebuilding Itself<\/a>, Julia Shiplett discusses her first trip to Detroit, her expectations, discomforts and realizations. I admire her depth of reflection, appreciate her honesty, and celebrate her accurate capture of Detroit&#8217;s essence. If more visitors to the city embarked on a similar pilgrimage, perhaps Detroit could be seen as the multifaceted municipal it is instead of the troubled caricature it has become.<\/p>\n<p>And for that reason, I in some small way disagree with Julia. She wrestles with feeling unwelcome, insensitive, and presumptuous after unabashedly traipsing into a less-than-traveled area of the city. I would argue it is much easier to recoil into the oblivious comfort of &#8220;fair trade coffee&#8221;, air-conditioned cars, and iPhones than to live in the tension of the knowledge of glut and lack. Instead of being &#8220;scolded&#8230;for gazing at a homeless person&#8221;, what if we were to strike up a conversation with one? After all, Julia never would have had her epiphany if she hadn&#8217;t been willing to see Detroit with her eyes and heart open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again facing a dearth for words, I would like to take this opportunity to direct my readers to a particularly insightful reflection written by a first time visitor to Detroit. In What Ruin Porn Means To a City Rebuilding Itself, Julia Shiplett discusses her first trip to Detroit, her expectations, discomforts and realizations. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-12617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detroit","tag-detroit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617","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\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}