{"id":16,"date":"2026-09-26T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/roanoke\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T09:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:10:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/roanoke\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oddusee Roanoke<\/strong> is your home for Black-owned business and Roanoke, 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 Roanoke \u2014 from Jackson Ward and Church Hill to Northside, Southside, and the neighborhoods in between. Explore Black-owned businesses and events, the Roanoke team and creatives, local media and music, and a plain-language civic guide to voting and the offices Roanoke 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>Roanoke 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 Roanoke<\/strong> \u2014 a guide to registration, dates, polling places, and every elected office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want your Black-owned Roanoke business or event featured? Head to the Registration page to get listed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddusee Roanoke is your home for Black-owned business and Roanoke, 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 Roanoke \u2014 from Jackson Ward and Church Hill to Northside, Southside, and[&#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\/roanoke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/roanoke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/roanoke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/roanoke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/roanoke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/roanoke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/roanoke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}