{"id":4179717,"date":"2013-10-01T16:28:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/posts-page-id\/"},"modified":"2016-08-21T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T05:40:08","slug":"posts-page-id","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/posts-page-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Posts Page ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need to get the ID of the Posts Page as set in Settings-&gt;Reading.<\/p>\n<p>the $post variable seems to only return information about the posts contained within the page how do I get the ID of the page itself?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using the featured image in a banner (outside the loop) so I need the ID to reference the thumbnail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-4179717","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-post-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/4179717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/4179717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}