{"id":206,"date":"2018-04-19T15:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunrisedaylight.org\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2018-04-19T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:50:19","slug":"what-is-the-masonic-lodge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sunrisedaylight.org\/index.php\/history-of-freemasonry\/what-is-the-masonic-lodge\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Masonic Lodge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>The word &#8220;Lodge&#8221; means both a group of Masons meeting together as well as the room or\u00a0building in which they meet. Masonic buildings are sometimes called &#8220;temples&#8221; because the\u00a0original meaning of the term was &#8220;place of knowledge&#8221; and Masonry encourages the\u00a0advancement of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Masonic Lodges usually meet once or twice a month to conduct regular business, vote upon petitions for membership, and bring new Masons into the Fraternity through three ceremonies called degrees. In the Lodge room Masons share in a variety of programs. Here the bonds of friendship and fellowship are formed and strengthened.<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;Lodge&#8221; means both a group of Masons meeting together as well as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":39,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisedaylight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisedaylight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisedaylight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisedaylight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisedaylight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisedaylight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisedaylight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions\/208"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisedaylight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisedaylight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}