{"id":2,"date":"2025-09-03T23:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.barringtonfencing.club\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:30:47","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.barringtonfencing.club\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re the Barrington Fencing Club, a friendly (somewhat) non-competitive group of fencers in Barrington Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We meet every Tuesday at 7:00PM in the Meeting Room at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stmichaelsbarrington.org\">St. Michael&#8217;s Episcopal Church<\/a> to learn and bout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike many clubs, which serve as preparation for tournament competition, we focus on fun. That&#8217;s not to say that we don&#8217;t compete, but we&#8217;re more interested in learning and growing than representing the United States in the next Olympic games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our members run the gamut in age and experience. New and experienced fencers are welcome, though we do require that participants be over the age of 13 &#8211; it has been our experience that many children younger than that age lack the focus and control necessary to enjoy the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--1\">About the Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Barrington Fencing Club is an Illinois Not-For Profit corporation that provides a low-cost, Barrington-area location for people of all ages to be introduced to, practice, and become more proficient at the Olympic sport of fencing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usafencing.org\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usafencing.org\">United States Fencing Association<\/a>, and carry insurance through the USFA club insurance program.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re the Barrington Fencing Club, a friendly (somewhat) non-competitive group of fencers in Barrington Illinois. We meet every Tuesday at 7:00PM in the Meeting Room at St. Michael&#8217;s Episcopal Church to learn and bout. Unlike many clubs, which serve as preparation for tournament competition, we focus on fun. That&#8217;s not to say that we don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barringtonfencing.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barringtonfencing.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barringtonfencing.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barringtonfencing.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barringtonfencing.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.barringtonfencing.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.barringtonfencing.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barringtonfencing.club\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}