{"id":13002,"date":"2015-03-31T18:29:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/?p=90"},"modified":"2015-03-31T18:29:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:29:33","slug":"hi-detroit-my-name-is-courtney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/hi-detroit-my-name-is-courtney\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi Detroit, My name is Courtney&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2015\/03\/detroit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-93\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2015\/03\/detroit-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"detroit\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Before I started Challenge Detroit, I had only been to Detroit a handful of times.\u00a0 It is safe to say that I did not &#8220;know&#8221; the city at all when I began as a fellow.\u00a0 I had done some volunteer work for the Duggan campaign and visited my fiance while he was working in the city &#8211; and that is about it.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Recently, I was driving down Woodward and passed an area that I remember driving before I really &#8220;met Detroit&#8221;.\u00a0 I reflected on how different this strip of land is to me now that I have become &#8220;acquainted&#8221; with the city.\u00a0 Unlike then, I now have a reference point for this strip of land.\u00a0 If I keep driving in this direction, I will eventually pass my grocery store and hit my apartment &#8211; places that I am now very familiar with.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">I then thought about all of the other places that I have gotten to know at different times in my life and about how different they ended up being from my first impression.\u00a0 I usually have the same range of emotions &#8211; I feel lost, I feel a bit scared, I start to subconsciously get comfortable, I like it, I love it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">I know that I am starting to love Detroit.\u00a0 I have memories here, I have friends here and I am familiar with places here.\u00a0 I also know that there is a lot of Detroit I still don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 I have bonded with such a small piece of it.\u00a0 I am excited to continue to get to know Detroit.\u00a0 For those of you who have not met this city yet, I urge you to visit.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let first impressions deter you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2015\/03\/IMG_78601.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-97\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneyhardebeck\/files\/2015\/03\/IMG_78601-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7860\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I started Challenge Detroit, I had only been to Detroit a handful of times.\u00a0 It is safe to say that I did not &#8220;know&#8221; the city at all when I began as a fellow.\u00a0 I had done some volunteer work for the Duggan campaign and visited my fiance while he was working in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002","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\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}