{"id":23,"date":"2023-09-20T03:18:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T03:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2023-09-27T00:55:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T00:55:37","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>About us<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the 1960\u2019s the population of Sacramento, experiencing rapid growth, began to move to the outskirts of the city. Property values continued to rise and as they rose, so did the taxation valuation. This rise in taxes began to impact the small farmers, not only of the <strong>Riverside-Pocket<\/strong> but throughout Sacramento County, forcing many of the original residents to sell portions of their property.\u00a0 <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Riverside-Pocket was rapidly becoming an area of homes, apartments, parks, and schools<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2009-08-19-1647-52-2-745x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2009-08-19-1647-52-2-745x1024.jpg 745w, https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2009-08-19-1647-52-2-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2009-08-19-1647-52-2-768x1056.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2009-08-19-1647-52-2-1117x1536.jpg 1117w, https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2009-08-19-1647-52-2-1489x2048.jpg 1489w, https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2009-08-19-1647-52-2-624x858.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2009-08-19-1647-52-2.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The <strong><em><u>Portuguese Historical and Cultural Society<\/u><\/em><\/strong>, originally, was formed in late 1979 as the Sacramento <strong><em>Portuguese-American Historical Committee<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; the brainchild of <em>Lorraine Perry D\u2019Alessandro<\/em>, her son <em>Joe D\u2019Alessandro<\/em>, and Lorraine\u2019s sister <em>Evelyn Perry Nordeste<\/em>, as a means to preserve, promote and make known, the Portuguese&#8211;American contribution to the history of Sacramento and the Greenhaven-Riverside-Pocket.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About us During the 1960\u2019s the population of Sacramento, experiencing rapid growth, began to move to the outskirts of the city. Property values continued to rise and as they rose, so did the taxation valuation. This rise in taxes began to impact the small farmers, not only of the Riverside-Pocket but throughout Sacramento County, forcing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacramentophcs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}