{"id":1405,"date":"2015-07-24T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:22","slug":"friday-july-24-30000-lutheran-students-in-motown-heres-one-young-womens-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/07\/24\/friday-july-24-30000-lutheran-students-in-motown-heres-one-young-womens-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday July 24  30,000 Lutheran students in Motown, here&#8217;s one young women&#8217;s blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know the poetry list is on vacation until August, &amp; so am I, sitting in my tiny 1896 wood frame bedroom looking out over Sunset Lake (see the ps below). \u00a0However, I just read a piece in today\u2019s Crain\u2019s Detroit Business, a blog by \u00a0Cassie Mattheis, one of the c. 30,000 Lutheran high school students who came to town this week. \u00a0 I love what she wrote about Detroit so I am passing it along.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cassiesrandommusings.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/a-letter-to-detroit-from-national-youth.html?m=1\">http:\/\/cassiesrandommusings.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/a-letter-to-detroit-from-national-youth.html?m=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>p.s. \u00a0\u00a0Yesterday (July 23) \u00a0I began my week\u2019s vacation at the 1896 Jesuit non-winterized wood frame villa looking out on Sunset Lake from our 100 year plus c. 100 ft long veranda. \u00a0I nap, work out, read, nap some more, play Sheepshead (look it up) with long friends, swim in the c. 90 ft glacier lake, one of 22 lakes in The Chain O\u2019Lakes. \u00a0We got here first, back in 1896, when the only other buildings on the lake were the Veterans Hospital for the wounded of the Grand Army of the Republic, \u00a0so we have c. 500 feet of shore line, a fine ridge c. 50 ft above the lake. \u00a0Like that.<\/p>\n<p>Each morning except Sunday (closed, alas) I come down to the Library about 9:30 for c. 90 minutes and read my emails + some of the world\u2019s best newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>from here . \u00a0. \u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/07\/Vacation2015-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1406\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/07\/Vacation2015-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vacation2015-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/07\/Vacation2015-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/07\/Vacation2015-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You see the lake, the little island on the right is \u201cEsther Williams Island.\u201d \u00a0 She may have owned it back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The steep c. 50 ft bank on the east end of the mile long lake, brings prevailing westerlies up over the bank, following Bernouli\u2019s principle, speeding up a bit and cooling the whole house most days. \u00a0Yes, we have toilets and running water and wireless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/07\/Vacation2015-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1407\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/07\/Vacation2015-2.jpg\" alt=\"Vacation2015-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/07\/Vacation2015-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/07\/Vacation2015-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know the poetry list is on vacation until August, &amp; so am I, sitting in my tiny 1896 wood frame bedroom looking out over Sunset Lake (see the ps below). \u00a0However, I just read a piece in today\u2019s Crain\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/07\/24\/friday-july-24-30000-lutheran-students-in-motown-heres-one-young-womens-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}