{"id":2437,"date":"2017-02-18T11:08:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T18:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/agora\/?page_id=2437"},"modified":"2024-11-02T23:34:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T06:34:13","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/agora\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ySJQaS27fac?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Agora Caf\u00e9<\/strong> (formerly known as Roots) was first opened and operated by UBC Food Services in the H.R. MacMillan building, home of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS). After UBC Food Services abandoned the site in 2004, the Food Nutrition and Health Student Committee requested permission to use the space to sell baked goods and lunches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In September of 2005, Ashley Wan, a dietetics student, created and organized the very beginnings of Agora as a student volunteer-run caf\u00e9. Since that time, Agora has firmly established itself as an integral part of the LFS community and continues to expand its volunteer base to students in other faculties across the UBC campus. Agora is an innovative caf\u00e9 that embraces UBC\u2019s movement towards sustainability and food security, while simultaneously providing meaningful experiences for its volunteers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agora Caf\u00e9 (formerly known as Roots) was first opened and operated by UBC Food Services in the H.R. MacMillan building, home of the Faculty of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/agora\/about-us\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":35651,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2437","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2437\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}