{"id":8,"date":"2026-04-30T17:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:21:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full polaroid wp-image-15\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/seattle-about.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/seattle-about.png 480w, https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/seattle-about-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>The First Group<\/strong> to call themselves \u201cRaging Grannies\u201d sprouted in the winter of 1986-87 in Victoria, British Columbia. Several peace activists who had been doing street theater began dressing up in outrageous hats and singing satirical songs to protest against nuclear submarines, uranium mining, nuclear power, militarism, racism, clear-cut logging, and corporate greed. They were sometimes arrested but never taken to court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Raging Grannies<\/strong> groups quickly sprang up clear across Canada, all the way to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Each group changes the words of familiar tunes to suit their particular circumstances. Our debut performance was on February 12, 1996, in Olympia at the Presidents Day rally sponsored by the Washington State Labor Council. Cold weather and pouring rain did not dampen our spirit as we sang<br \/>\n<em>Oh, we are a gaggle of grannies<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Urging you off your fannies<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We\u2019re raising our voice<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We\u2019re sick of your toys<\/em><br \/>\n<em>NO MORE WAR!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since then the\u00a0<strong>Seattle Raging Grannies<\/strong> have performed at numerous rallies, meetings, schools, festivals, churches, community events, and demonstrations where we sing for women\u2019s rights, jobs for all, a clean environment, better education and an end to military spending. In our continuing efforts to raise awareness of issues, we would like to sing ourselves out of business. Each Raging Granny has found empowerment through this shared experience.<\/p>\n<p>We do not seek payment for booked performances, but we do accept donations in order to fund our activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Group to call themselves \u201cRaging Grannies\u201d sprouted in the winter of 1986-87 in Victoria, British Columbia. Several peace activists who had been doing street theater began dressing up in outrageous hats and singing satirical songs to protest against nuclear submarines, uranium mining, nuclear power, militarism, racism, clear-cut logging, and corporate greed. They were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}