{"id":174,"date":"2019-06-20T17:07:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lodge1454.com\/?page_id=174"},"modified":"2019-06-20T17:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:26:58","slug":"where-did-masonry-begin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/index.php\/where-did-masonry-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did Masonry Begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-178 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/lodge1454.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Castle-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 550px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Castle-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Castle-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Castle-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Castle-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Castle-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Castle.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>No one knows just how old Freemasonry is because the actual origins have been lost in time. Most scholars believe Masonry rose from the guilds of stonemasons who built the majestic castles and\u00a0cathedrals of the middle ages. In 1717, Masonry created a formal organization when four Lodges in\u00a0London joined in forming England\u2019s first Grand Lodge. By 1731, when Benjamin Franklin joined\u00a0the Fraternity, there were already several Lodges in the Colonies, and in Canada the first Lodge\u00a0was established in 1738.<\/p><p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Today, Masonic Lodges are found in almost every community throughout North America, and in large cities there are usually several Lodges.<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/><p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A Mason can travel to almost any country in the world and find a Masonic Lodge where he will&nbsp;be welcomed as a \u201cBrother.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one knows just how old Freemasonry is because the actual origins have been lost in time. Most scholars believe Masonry rose from the guilds of stonemasons who built the majestic castles and\u00a0cathedrals of the middle ages. In 1717, Masonry created a formal organization when four Lodges in\u00a0London joined in forming England\u2019s first Grand Lodge. By 1731, when Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/index.php\/where-did-masonry-begin\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-174","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lodge1454.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}