{"id":9,"date":"2014-03-09T20:23:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T20:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fssdar.com\/chapters\/marcoisland\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:33:45","slug":"eligibility-meetings-programs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/eligibility-meetings-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Want to become a member of the DAR?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Any woman 18 years or older, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law, \u00a0who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution is eligible for membership. We will help you with your genealogy research and membership application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When do we meet?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meetings are held on the third Thursday during November,\u00a0 January,\u00a0 February,\u00a0 March,\u00a0 and April at 10:30 am.\u00a0 Registration required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What types of programs do we enjoy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each meeting includes devotions or ritual, patriotic exercise, President General\u2019s message, and National Defense report.\u00a0 Our meeting programs cover a variety of topics such as education, patriotism, historic preservation, conservation, and women\u2019s issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sunset-at-Marco-Island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-24\" src=\"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sunset-at-Marco-Island-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sunset-at-Marco-Island-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sunset-at-Marco-Island.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marco Island Bridge at Sunset<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to become a member of the DAR? Any woman 18 years or older, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law, \u00a0who can prove lineal descent from a patriot &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/eligibility-meetings-programs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/MarcoIsland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}