# JSON data to determine if Patron Member is a Creator's Patreon or not **URL:** \ **Category:** Friendly Help\ **Created:** [June 26, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/json-data-to-determine-if-patron-member-is-a-creators-patreon-or-not/760 "2018-06-26T12:28:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![sam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.patreondevelopers.com/sam/32/492_2.png) [@sam](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/json-data-to-determine-if-patron-member-is-a-creators-patreon-or-not/760/4 "2018-06-27T13:30:30Z")
As noted in the documentation, some attributes are optional, on a [Pledge](https://docs.patreon.com/#pledge) for example: ```auto // optional properties "total_historical_amount_cents": "is_paused": "has_shipping_address": ``` You must request these attributes explicitly to have them included in the response. However, a very important caveat is that when you explicitly request _any_ attribute you must explicitly request _every_ attribute you wish to be included. Therefore, if you would like to have access to `is_paused` _with_ the default data you’ll need to explicitly request `is_paused`, `created_at`, `amount_cents`, `declined_since`, `has_shipping_address` etc. You can find an explanation of how to request optional data in the documentation here: [https://docs.patreon.com/#requesting-specific-data](https://docs.patreon.com/#requesting-specific-data) My library builds a request URL containing each property of the entity, you can see how it does that here: [https://github.com/1f991/patreon-php/blob/master/src/Patreon/Resources/Resource.php#L128](https://github.com/1f991/patreon-php/blob/master/src/Patreon/Resources/Resource.php#L128) Let me know if you need any other information 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/json-data-to-determine-if-patron-member-is-a-creators-patreon-or-not/760)._