{"id":85,"date":"2022-02-07T07:58:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2022-06-20T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T15:18:42","slug":"about-the-waa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/","title":{"rendered":"About The WAA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Western Amateur Astronomers was formed in 1949 by professional and amateur astronomers&nbsp;as a regional group of astronomical organizations in the western states to combine their efforts to&nbsp;educate the public, promote a better understanding of the field of astronomy and encourage the&nbsp;collaboration between professional and amateur astronomers for astronomical research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WAA was incorporated in California as a non-profit educational organization in 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WAA helps local astronomy groups organize, sponsors, and participates in conferences&nbsp;and awards the G. Bruce Blair award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WAA publishes The New Pacific Stargazer, a newsletter for Amateur Astronomers compiled from articles chosen from our member clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Amateur Astronomers was formed in 1949 by professional and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}