{"id":24140,"date":"2019-04-05T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=24012"},"modified":"2019-04-05T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T18:02:28","slug":"home-away-from-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/home-away-from-home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Away From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Detroit_City_Fieldhouse_Rendering_1_11_18.0-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A bar and a soccer field in one? Sounds like a dream. That dream turned to reality when I discovered the Detroit City Fieldhouse. I have been playing soccer for 17 years, and after my last college game I never thought I would play again, because I was moving to a new city and did not know what to expect. Little did I know, 3 minutes down the road from my apartment, was the newly built indoor soccer field for the DCFC men&#8217;s soccer team.<\/p>\n<p>I will never forget the joy I felt, when my cousin texted me asking if I wanted to be a substitute for her team. I felt a certain comfort on the soccer field from the moment I touched the ball, that work and my apartment could never give me. After playing with my cousin, I went on to join 2 more leagues and have met so many amazing people along the way. The bar above the field made the field house serve as more than just a place to run around and kick a ball, but more so a place to connect with individuals who share the same interests.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I will take with me to whatever city I end up in:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t let moving to a new city be the barrier that stops you from continuing to do the things you love.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bar and a soccer field in one? Sounds like a dream. That dream turned to reality when I discovered the Detroit City Fieldhouse. I have been playing soccer for 17 years, and after my last college game I never thought I would play again, because I was moving to a new city and did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playdetroit","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140","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\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}