{"id":1212,"date":"2015-05-27T00:10:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T07:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bll.dxc.mybluehost.me\/2015\/?page_id=1212"},"modified":"2015-05-27T00:10:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T07:10:33","slug":"about-convention","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myvpa.org\/2015\/about-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"About Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Vokkaligara Parishat of America<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Vokkaliga community members are those who can trace their ancestry to people engaged in the farming occupation<\/li>\n<li>VPA is a cultural &amp; charitable organization which promotes Vokkaliga community in USA and Canada<\/li>\n<li>In existence since 1992. <\/li>\n<li>Is a non-profit organization with Tax ID: 31-1529941<\/li>\n<li>Has a 501 (c) 3 status which provides exempt status, for Federal income tax purposes.<\/li>\n<li>Is an umbrella organization for 4 VPA Chapters representing 3,000 families across USA and Canada<\/li>\n<li>Is involved in many charitable works. VPA has raised money for many hospitals in Karnataka. <\/li>\n<li>Organizes conferences once in 2 years and has organized 13 VPA conferences so far <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About upcoming 14th VPA Convention in Sacramento<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>14th VPA convention will be held during July 2nd to July 4th at Doubletree Hilton, Sacramento, CA<\/li>\n<li>More than 800 people are expected to attend. <\/li>\n<li>Attendees will include affluent professionals like Doctors, Engineers, IT field professionals and<br \/>\nBusiness people. <\/li>\n<li>A number of dignitaries from US and India will attend the Conference <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Vokkaligara Parishat of America Vokkaliga community members are those who can trace their ancestry to people engaged in the farming occupation VPA is a cultural &amp; charitable organization which promotes Vokkaliga community in USA and Canada In existence since 1992. Is a non-profit organization with Tax ID: 31-1529941 Has a 501 (c) 3 status <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/myvpa.org\/2015\/about-convention\/\">Continue reading <i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1212","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myvpa.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myvpa.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myvpa.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myvpa.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myvpa.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myvpa.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/myvpa.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myvpa.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}