{"id":12728,"date":"2013-10-30T01:57:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T01:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/tiaramichelleadams\/?p=18"},"modified":"2013-10-30T01:57:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T01:57:29","slug":"a-new-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/a-new-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout my years I have established a residence in now 3 different cities in the great state of\u00a0Michigan. I was born in raised in our capital, Lansing MI. Upon graduation I ventured north to the\u00a0beautiful, small town big school feeling city of Big Rapids, MI home of the Bulldogs and Ferris State\u00a0University. Now I am embarking on my newest adventure here in the legendary city of Detroit, MI.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0the past month I have called Detroit home and surprisingly it\u2019s nothing like I imagined it. I currently\u00a0reside downtown in Riverfront Towers. Riverfront Towers is amazing! From my living room there is a\u00a0view of the bridge to Canada that is breathtaking,<\/p>\n

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there is a track on the top of the parking garage and\u00a0from there it feels as though you can see the whole city.<\/p>\n

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Downstairs there is a conveniently located\u00a0restaurant (The Signature Grille)\u00a0that has good food at low prices.<\/p>\n

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The residents are friendly and the staff is always willing\u00a0to help. My past couple weekends have been spent getting lost (a lot), trying new restaurants (thank\u00a0you Detroit Restaurant Week and Detroit Seafood Market!)<\/p>\n

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dropping in on a crossfit workout at a nearby box (Crossfit BMW)\u00a0and exploring all the city has to offer with my fellow fellows. From running along the river front with\u00a0\u201cRunThisTown\u201d to early mornings at the Eastern Market there is more than enough here to keep me\u00a0busy. However, all these great things are not what surprise me. Not once have I felt unsafe here in this city is\u00a0what surprises me. People describe Detroit as dangerous, violent, poverty stricken etc\u2026and I have to\u00a0admit I used to be one of them. Now I am convinced that most of the people that shine negative light\u00a0on Detroit have never taken the time to explore it or speak to someone who lives here. I am not saying\u00a0go take a walk at 2am down a dark alley, you do have to be safe and aware of your surroundings at all\u00a0times but that\u2019s not just in Detroit its everywhere.<\/p>\n

Do you ever wonder why Detroit seems to attract so much negative attention? Why are people so keen on\u00a0spotlighting the few mishaps this city has experienced?<\/p>\n

Those are a few questions that pop into my head when I hear a negative comment about my new found\u00a0home or read a less that flattering newspaper article about what\u2019s going on in this city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout my years I have established a residence in now 3 different cities in the great state of\u00a0Michigan. I was born in raised in our capital, Lansing MI. Upon graduation I ventured north to the\u00a0beautiful, small town big school feeling city of Big Rapids, MI home of the Bulldogs and Ferris State\u00a0University. Now I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728","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\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}