{"id":202,"date":"2016-10-09T02:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T02:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.116.64.30\/~guthrie8\/edmond37\/wp\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2016-10-09T02:30:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T02:30:46","slug":"york-rite-masonry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/index.php\/york-rite-masonry\/","title":{"rendered":"York Rite Masonry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/index.php\/york-rite-masonry\/york-pinwheel-alt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-203\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-203 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/york-pinwheel-alt-300x300.png\" alt=\"york-pinwheel-alt\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/york-pinwheel-alt-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/york-pinwheel-alt-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/york-pinwheel-alt-768x765.png 768w, https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/york-pinwheel-alt-1024x1019.png 1024w, https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/york-pinwheel-alt-151x150.png 151w, https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/york-pinwheel-alt.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The York Rite is one of the appendant bodies of Freemasonry in which a Master Mason may proceed to supplement and amplify the Blue Lodge degrees, affording historical background on the work and meaning of Freemasonry. The York Rite takes its name from the old English city of York.<\/p>\n<p>Many believe the Sublime Degree of Master Mason to be the ultimate degree of Freemasonry and that all others are added and explanatory. Most students of Freemasonry agree that the story of the Craft as presented in the three degrees is incomplete and that the degrees offered in the York Rite of Freemasonry complete the story and answer many of the questions in the mind of the newly made Master Mason.The York Rite consists of three separate bodies which confer an additional six degrees and three orders beyond the Blue Lodge&#8217;s three degrees:\u00a0 Royal Arch Chapter and Council degrees, and the Commandery orders.<\/p>\n<p>Complete information on the York Rite in Oklahoma can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/okyorkrite.org\">Oklahoma Grand York Rite<\/a> web page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The York Rite is one of the appendant bodies of Freemasonry in which a Master Mason may proceed to supplement and amplify the Blue Lodge degrees, affording historical background on the work and meaning of Freemasonry. The York Rite takes its name from the old English city of York. Many\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/index.php\/york-rite-masonry\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmondmasoniclodge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}