{"id":26,"date":"2009-01-01T13:53:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T21:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/truebluefriends.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2013-11-20T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:58:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/truebluefriends.org\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>True Blue Friends<\/strong> is a nonprofit association of friends who want to lend the world a hopeful and thoughtful voice. The idea was sparked in 2000 at one of the darkest times in U.S. history. Through this blog, TBF seeks to provide a forum that advances ideas and policies toward a better world where hope, not fear, prevails.<\/p>\n<p>The main topics of this blog are politics, economy, environment, human needs, and peace &amp; justice. In time we may have subtopics as well. For example, the environment category might contain &#8220;ecology&#8221; and &#8220;green architecture&#8221;. <\/p>\n<h3>Become a Member<\/h3>\n<p>If you would like to use the blogging features, you can create a subscriber account on the &#8216;Register&#8217; link in the Members area. Choose a username and password to create your account. This information will be kept private.<\/p>\n<p>Then login and go to your Profile here: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truebluefriends.org\/wordpress\/wp-admin\/profile.php\">https:\/\/truebluefriends.org\/wordpress\/wp-admin\/profile.php<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Create a Nickname to use for your posts and choose &#8220;Display name publicly as&#8221; and select the nickname. Be sure to save your changes by clicking Update Profile at the bottom of the page. <\/p>\n<p>The Nickname you choose will be your &#8220;byline&#8221; on all your posts and comments, so choose wisely.<\/p>\n<p>After your account is established and if you decide you want to become a regular contributor, I will upgrade your account to Author status. As an Author, you will have more options, including the ability to edit your work. <\/p>\n<p>Please send me feedback, including any links you think we should add to the sidebar. I want to get this blog fully functioning soon. With an historic presidential election, we have a lot to talk about!<\/p>\n<p>We welcome you to become a part of True Blue Friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True Blue Friends is a nonprofit association of friends who want to lend the world a hopeful and thoughtful voice. The idea was sparked in 2000 at one of the darkest times in U.S. history. Through this blog, TBF seeks to provide a forum that advances ideas and policies toward a better world where hope, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truebluefriends.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truebluefriends.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truebluefriends.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truebluefriends.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truebluefriends.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/truebluefriends.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/truebluefriends.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truebluefriends.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}