{"id":16,"date":"2026-09-27T00:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/northernvirginia\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T00:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:14:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/northernvirginia\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oddusee Northern Virginia<\/strong> is your home for Black-owned business and Northern Virginia, Virginia culture \u2014 part of the Oddusee network of city guides alongside New Orleans, Houston, Atlanta, and more.<\/p>\n<p>We spotlight the people, places, and businesses that make Black Northern Virginia \u2014 from Jackson Ward and Church Hill to Northside, Southside, and the neighborhoods in between. Explore Black-owned businesses and events, the Northern Virginia team and creatives, local media and music, and a plain-language civic guide to voting and the offices Northern Virginia residents elect.<\/p>\n<h2>What you&#8217;ll find here<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Businesses &amp; Events<\/strong> \u2014 Black-owned businesses and happenings across RVA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Northern Virginia Team<\/strong> \u2014 the creatives, entrepreneurs, and community voices we feature.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media<\/strong> \u2014 news, videos, galleries, and music from RVA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How to Vote in Northern Virginia<\/strong> \u2014 a guide to registration, dates, polling places, and every elected office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want your Black-owned Northern Virginia business or event featured? Head to the Registration page to get listed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddusee Northern Virginia is your home for Black-owned business and Northern Virginia, Virginia culture \u2014 part of the Oddusee network of city guides alongside New Orleans, Houston, Atlanta, and more. We spotlight the people, places, and businesses that make Black Northern Virginia \u2014 from Jackson Ward and Church Hill to[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/northernvirginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/northernvirginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/northernvirginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/northernvirginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/northernvirginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/northernvirginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/northernvirginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}