{"id":83,"date":"2013-11-25T05:07:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T05:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/brandikeeler\/?p=83"},"modified":"2013-11-25T05:07:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T05:07:48","slug":"a-poem-for-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/a-poem-for-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem For Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s much to be learned from you, Detroit<\/p>\n<p>From the way you dance in the streets when no one is looking<br \/>\nto the way you light up when everyone is<\/p>\n<p>You know they say experience is the best teacher<br \/>\nYours must&#8217;ve had her Doctorate<br \/>\nMagna Cum Lade<br \/>\nHigh honors<br \/>\nAnd all that jazz<\/p>\n<p>Because you&#8217;ve taught me a lot<\/p>\n<p>You taught me about music, magic and medicine<br \/>\nYou taught me how to smell, see, hear, taste, and feel<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve always reminded me to smile,<\/p>\n<p>even when it&#8217;s hard to<\/p>\n<p>And You&#8217;ve showed me why loving your neighbor is so damn important<\/p>\n<p>You taught me about hope<br \/>\nHope.<br \/>\nIt isn&#8217;t something that exists amongst rows of perfectly mowed grass<br \/>\nperfect buildings<br \/>\nOr perfect people<\/p>\n<p>You showed me that hope doesn&#8217;t exist there<\/p>\n<p>It is a more brave and rare form of beauty<\/p>\n<p>Hope exists in the glimpse of light reflected from a piece of broken glass,<br \/>\na gem,<br \/>\nthat shines against the darkness of your abandoned streets and reminds me that happiness is temporary<br \/>\nbut so is adversity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/brandikeeler\/files\/2013\/11\/Bkeeler1_001527.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-84\" alt=\"Bkeeler1_001527\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/brandikeeler\/files\/2013\/11\/Bkeeler1_001527-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s much to be learned from you, Detroit From the way you dance in the streets when no one is looking to the way you light up when everyone is You know they say experience is the best teacher Yours must&#8217;ve had her Doctorate Magna Cum Lade High honors And all that jazz Because you&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[244,63,245,246,247],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-givedetroit","category-livedetroit","tag-adversity","tag-detroit","tag-hope","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}