{"id":625,"date":"2017-12-20T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/?page_id=625"},"modified":"2021-09-21T19:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T19:09:53","slug":"about-the-legion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/index.php\/about-the-legion\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Legion"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-104\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-Emblem-jpg-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-Emblem-jpg-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-Emblem-jpg-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-Emblem-jpg-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-Emblem-jpg.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gurnee American Legion Post 771 was established in 1935 to serve veterans and the community. Made up of service veterans, the American Legion is built upon the four pillar of service:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Veterans Affairs &amp; Rehabilitation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>National Security<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Americanism<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Children &amp; Youth<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If you are a veteran and are ready to serve your country and community again, come and check us out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Activities of Post 771<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Annual College Scholarship<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sponsorship to Boys State<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>American Legion Baseball (Gurnee Riverdogs)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Serving and supporting our fellow veterans at Lovell Federal Health Center<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Police Cadet Sponsorship<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Annual Orators Contest<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sponsorship of Warren High School activities (Hack 101)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Annual Poppy Day sales<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Memorial Day Host<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Patriot Day (9\/11) Remberance<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Veteran&#8217;s Day Host<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gurnee American Legion Post 771 was established in 1935 to serve veterans and the community. Made up of service veterans, the American Legion is built upon the four pillar of service: Veterans Affairs &amp; Rehabilitation National Security Americanism Children &amp; Youth If you are a veteran and are ready to serve your country and community &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/index.php\/about-the-legion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Legion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-625","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/625\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gurneeamericanlegion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}