{"id":449,"date":"2014-04-03T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=449"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:51:12","slug":"april-3-a-long-overdue-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/04\/03\/april-3-a-long-overdue-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"April 3  &#8220;a long-overdue summer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 3 &#8220;a long-overdue summer&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t mean to be irreverant with this post but I got busy and didn&#8217;t have time to find a poem. And I thought this little piece from Crain&#8217;s Detroit Business is not without merit. Esp on a day that, once again, does not incline one to imagine dancing among flowers and bees; more today about being glad not to have put winter coats\/hats in summer storage yet.<br \/>\nHave a good day.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Detroit, it is as much about the promise of a long-overdue summer as it is batting averages and ERAs.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get me wrong, the Tigers are poised to make a nice run this year, if they can shore up the bullpen.<br \/>\nBut ask Detroit\u2019s bar and restaurant owners what they care about, and they\u2019ll tell you a different story.<br \/>\nTo a lot of them, Opening Day is about increased beer sales and the much-needed revenue that comes with it. And it&#8217;s about the crowds of thirsty fans who were out in droves this morning, some hitting the bar as early as 7 a.m. It was a welcome sign of things to come.<br \/>\nThis has been a long, hard winter for all of us in Michigan, but spring is coming.<\/p>\n<p>Crain&#8217;s Detroit Business April 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 3 &#8220;a long-overdue summer&#8221; Don&#8217;t mean to be irreverant with this post but I got busy and didn&#8217;t have time to find a poem. And I thought this little piece from Crain&#8217;s Detroit Business is not without merit. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/04\/03\/april-3-a-long-overdue-summer\/\">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\/449"}],"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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}