{"id":5768,"date":"2017-03-13T16:06:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2017-03-13T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:12:34","slug":"back-in-the-ol-hometown-ctd-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5768","title":{"rendered":"Back in the ol&#8217; hometown, <i>ctd<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Grosfield Building on Michigan Avenue is falling apart <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t9FCIPZr1d\">https:\/\/t.co\/t9FCIPZr1d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZIstDF5YRK\">pic.twitter.com\/ZIstDF5YRK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Curbed Detroit (@CurbedDetroit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurbedDetroit\/status\/841343452545744896\">March 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Detroit has been setting records for murder and overall decrepitude for so long that it can be hard to remember that, decades ago, it was actually a habitable and (mostly) safe place.  There was a highly regarded art museum; a zoo that was famous all over the world for its progressive animal habitat designs; a sophisticated, extensive, and heavily-used public library.  The high school I attended was analogous to the famous Boston Latin School and regularly visited by world-famous scientists and politicians; graduates, basically, had completed their first year of college.  There was a lively underground music and arts culture.  There were many spacious public parks, and they were both safe and well maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn and I visited Detroit in the summer of the year we got married, and drove down Grand River avenue from Telegraph Rd. on the city&#8217;s western edge to downtown, near the river.  There was nothing to see but mile after mile of boarded-up storefronts &#8212; the route I rode every day for years, on a city bus, when I went to high school in downtown &#8212; and the future I had seen coming.  I have never understood why anybody stayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grosfield Building on Michigan Avenue is falling apart https:\/\/t.co\/t9FCIPZr1d pic.twitter.com\/ZIstDF5YRK &mdash; Curbed Detroit (@CurbedDetroit) March 13, 2017 Detroit has been setting records for murder and overall decrepitude for so long that it can be hard to remember that, decades &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5768\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5774,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions\/5774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}