{"id":21221,"date":"2017-07-14T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=21221"},"modified":"2017-07-14T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T14:08:08","slug":"glimpse-detroit-third-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/glimpse-detroit-third-street\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;a glimpse of Detroit: third street&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>a collaborative poem informed by patrons at 3rd street bar on the evening of july 13th 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p>a familiar space<br \/>\nbut a new night<br \/>\n(it\u2019s the end of a two-year era)<\/p>\n<p>many memories felt<br \/>\nand many more to make<br \/>\nin this city once so unfamiliar<br \/>\nnow<br \/>\nwe think we are home<\/p>\n<p>(some) have (some) hope<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<br \/>\nmoney speaks on every corner.<br \/>\neven the most blighted of corners.<br \/>\nthose who come will go;<br \/>\nthose living with luxury leave luxuriously when they go<br \/>\n\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u201ccomeback city\u201d<br \/>\nsays the boy in the tigers jersey<br \/>\nfrom the burbs<br \/>\ncorona hat adorned<\/p>\n<p>the one who grew here<br \/>\nsays<br \/>\n\u201cit&#8217;s a just place&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>and the one now back<br \/>\n(just visiting from the big citay)<br \/>\nremarks<br \/>\n&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think about anything Detroit because I don&#8217;t think about Detroit anymore&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>our era ends as one friend leaves<br \/>\nhe &#8220;likes&#8221; it<br \/>\nbut must go now<\/p>\n<p>another moves [on] too<\/p>\n<p>like any good love<br \/>\ni love this place so much it makes me want to rip my hair out<br \/>\n(k says if detroit were a person it would be ryan gosling)<br \/>\n(i don\u2019t know what that means)<\/p>\n<p>will there be a happy ending?<br \/>\ndoes it end?<br \/>\nthis beautiful, aggravating, wonderful challenge?<br \/>\none day, we will\/will we see<br \/>\nuntil then, Hamms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a collaborative poem informed by patrons at 3rd street bar on the evening of july 13th 2017 a familiar space but a new night (it\u2019s the end of a two-year era) many memories felt and many more to make in this city once so unfamiliar now we think we are home (some) have (some) hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21221","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\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}