{"id":49,"date":"2014-10-31T19:31:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T00:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgertonmasons.com\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2014-10-31T19:31:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T00:31:21","slug":"how-to-join","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edgertonmasons.com\/?page_id=49","title":{"rendered":"How to Join"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"about_main\">\n<p>How to Become a Freemason<\/p>\n<p>Freemasons come from all walks of life, but in order to become a Mason you must meet a few simple criteria:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You must be a male, at least 18 years of age<\/li>\n<li>You must profess a belief in a Supreme Being<\/li>\n<li>You must be a man of good morals and reputation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In order to join you must seek admission by your own free will, and you must be recommended by a current Freemason, unanimously elected to membership and willing to assume an obligation to the fraternity.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this lodge, contact:<\/p>\n<p>master@edgertonmasons.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To learn more about Freemasonry in General, we suggest visiting:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Philalethes: The Journal of Masonic Research\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freemasonry.org\/\">http:\/\/www.freemasonry.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Freemasonry in Wisconsin, we suggest visiting:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Official Website of the Grand Lodge F.&amp;A.M. of WI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisc-freemasonry.org\/\">Official Website of the Grand Lodge F.&amp;A.M. of WI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Shriners, and Shriner\u2019s Hospitals for Children:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Shriners International\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beashrinernow.com\/\">http:\/\/www.beashrinernow.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zor Shriners\" href=\"http:\/\/zorshriners.com\/\">Zor Shrine (Madison, Wisconsin)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Become a Freemason Freemasons come from all walks of life, but in order to become a Mason you must meet a few simple criteria: You must be a male, at least 18 years of age You must profess a belief in a Supreme Being You must be a man of good morals and reputation In order to join<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5kAw1-N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edgertonmasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edgertonmasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edgertonmasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edgertonmasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edgertonmasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edgertonmasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"http:\/\/www.edgertonmasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edgertonmasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}