{"id":241,"date":"2016-01-23T20:37:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2016-02-08T12:31:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T17:31:37","slug":"motivation-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/motivation\/motivation-1\/","title":{"rendered":"..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u201cConstitution of the Rhode Island Philatelic Society\u201d<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Providence, RI : 1885<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sidney S. Rider Collection<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1882, a postal worker and a bank employee in Providence realized they shared the same hobby, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nefed.org\/RIPS\/index.html\">America\u2019s oldest philatelic society<\/a> was formed. A solitary activity for some, stamp collecting can be social as well. These two collectors formalized the group by drafting this constitution, distributing it to all ten of the initial members, and organizing their first official meeting on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">January 20, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1885. By the late 1880s, philatelic societies and collecting groups began emerging across the country. (<a href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1931262~S7\">JOSIAH<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003526md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-450 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003526md.jpg\" alt=\"olio00000003526md\" width=\"535\" height=\"851\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cConstitution of the Rhode Island Philatelic Society\u201d Providence, RI : 1885 Sidney S. Rider Collection In 1882, a postal worker and a bank employee in Providence realized they shared the same hobby, and America\u2019s oldest philatelic society was formed. A solitary activity for some, stamp collecting can be social as well. These two collectors formalized <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/motivation\/motivation-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":56,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/987"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}