{"id":257,"date":"2011-10-04T07:30:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T14:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningnewsinverse.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2011-10-04T07:30:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T14:30:48","slug":"hail-to-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Hail to Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Bob Sparrow<\/p>\n<p>I wore my Detroit Tigers t-shirt last weekend, a shirt I purchased at Tiger Stadium several years ago \u2013 the one with the mustard on it.\u00a0 I had several people asked me how a California native became a Detroit fan.\u00a0 Those who know me know I spent the last five\u00a0 years of my career \u2018commuting\u2019 from southern California to Michigan. The traveling was never fun, but getting to know the people from Michigan was something I\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n<p>They are tough \u2013 they have struggled more than most states through this dismal recession, as much of their state\u2019s economy is auto-based and the Big 3 were not so big.<\/p>\n<p>They have great values \u2013 having spent a good deal of my business life \u2018on the road\u2019 I had an opportunity\u00a0to visit virtually\u00a0every state in the union and I can tell you that there is indeed a mid-West culture and value system, and it\u2019s still alive and well in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>They are just good, hard-working people who deserve better \u2013 and now they are getting it.<br \/>\nTo wit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The University of Michigan is 5-0 and in Denard Robinson have the most exciting player in college football.<\/li>\n<li>Michigan State University is 4-1 and beat Ohio State last week for the first time in over a decade<\/li>\n<li>The Tigers won their division and now have a 2-1 lead over the Yankees in the first round of the play-offs<\/li>\n<li>The Lions are 4-0 in a season marked by great second half comebacks<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018Hockeytown\u2019 Red Wings continue to dominate the Central Division and their fans at \u2018The Joe\u2019 \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Believin\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Detroit economy still has a long way to go, but with the Big 3 making a comeback, their economy improved more than the national average last year and will probably do it again this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Of all the places that I\u2019ve\u00a0been<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing quite like Michigan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bob Sparrow I wore my Detroit Tigers t-shirt last weekend, a shirt I purchased at Tiger Stadium several years ago \u2013 the one with the mustard on it.\u00a0 I had several people asked me how a California native became &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/?p=257\">read more<span class=\"meta-nav\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[186,323,418,462,463,590,723,752],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2","category-tributes","tag-detroit","tag-hockeytown","tag-lions","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-state","tag-red-wings","tag-tigers","tag-university-of-michigan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aN0-49","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}