{"id":98030,"date":"2025-12-21T09:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/?p=98030"},"modified":"2025-12-21T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:36:04","slug":"i-love-the-grange-2-2-2-2-2-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/?p=98030","title":{"rendered":"Mary Jo loves the Grange!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I love being a member of Norway Grange #45. I love volunteering for activities with members that involve not only our local communities, our surrounding communities as well. Partnering and collaborating with other Granges , learning and listening to ideas . Going to State Convention is a joy and beautiful experience; I am speaking from my perspective. I have been a member since 2017, that is when I arrived, and I am so happy I did. I am 75, it has given me a new perspective on retirement or semi-retirement. It has given me a purpose and a new beginning.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Jo DiBenedetto, Norway Grange #45<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do you<\/strong> love the Grange? Can you explain what’s great about being a member? It only takes a minute to click the button and tell the world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love being a member of Norway Grange #45. I love volunteering for activities with members that involve not only our local communities, our surrounding communities as well. Partnering and collaborating with other Granges , learning and listening to ideas . Going to State Convention is a joy and beautiful experience; I am speaking from … Continue reading “Mary Jo loves the Grange!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[165,9],"tags":[206,27],"post_folder":[463],"class_list":["post-98030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication-2","category-membership","tag-grange-advocacy","tag-grange-membership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Walter Boomsma","author_link":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/?author=2122"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I love being a member of Norway Grange #45. I love volunteering for activities with members that involve not only our local communities, our surrounding communities as well. Partnering and collaborating with other Granges , learning and listening to ideas . Going to State Convention is a joy and beautiful experience; I am speaking from…","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1arC1-pv8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98031,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98030\/revisions\/98031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98030"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=98030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}