{"id":8,"date":"2013-04-04T03:17:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T03:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2014-06-30T21:11:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T21:11:41","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwanis History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Kiwanis-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-81\" src=\"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Kiwanis-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Kiwanis logo\" width=\"192\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a>Kiwanis International was founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan, and became an international organization with the creation of the Kiwanis Club of Hamilton, Ontario, the following year.\u00a0In the early years, members focused on business networking but in 1919, the organization changed its focus to service. In the 1960s, worldwide expansion was approved and within the decade, Kiwanis International-Europe was formed, representing Kiwanians in 11 European nations. In 1987, women officially were allowed into the membership. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.kiwanis.org\/Kiwanis\/en\/discover\/ourhistory.aspx\">(Read More)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/48-years.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-150\" src=\"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/48-years.jpg\" alt=\"48 years\" width=\"600\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/48-years.jpg 600w, http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/48-years-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwanis International was founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan, and became an international organization with the creation of the Kiwanis Club of Hamilton, Ontario, the following year.\u00a0In the early years, members focused on business networking but in 1919, the organization &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lehighacreskiwanis.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}