{"id":87,"date":"2017-03-29T21:43:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:50:57","slug":"membership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/?page_id=87","title":{"rendered":"Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Requirements for membership:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Unites States Citizenship<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) Belief in God<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) Three sponsors who are current members in good standing (one primary and two secondary)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elks are not affiliated with any religious organization or business but base our actions solely on the principles of the Elk Organization: Charity, Justice Brotherly Love, Fidelity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Membership applications are available any time at the Lodge office. Information and an on-line application can also be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elks.org\/sharedelksorg\/lodges\/files\/0146_elksmemapp.pdf\">Application<\/a>. Once completed, turn it into the Lodge office with a $100 processing fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are already a member of another Lodge and wish to join a different one, you need to fill out this form: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elks.org\/clms2web\/files\/RequestForCertificateOfRelease.pdf\">Request for Release<\/a> and return it to the Lodge with a $25 processing fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Requirements for membership: 1) Unites States Citizenship 2) Belief in God 3) Three sponsors who are current members in good standing (one primary and two secondary) Elks are not affiliated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6788,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/6788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzelks.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}