{"id":10047,"date":"2018-06-14T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10047"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:46:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:46:58","slug":"a-wisconsin-town-loses-its-school-and-the-new-york-times-is-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/a-wisconsin-town-loses-its-school-and-the-new-york-times-is-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wisconsin town loses its school, and the New York Times is on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/13\/us\/arena-wisconsin-schools-empty.html\">Sound familiar?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>But the reality of rural life in the Midwest, school officials say, is that younger people are fleeing. They want Starbucks and Thai restaurants, plentiful jobs and high-speed internet, and when they start families, they want schools with amenities and big, thriving athletic programs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn any small community, anywhere in this country, our kids grow up and move away,\u201d said Mark Strozinsky, a River Valley school board member. \u201cThey go to college and get a job, but it\u2019s not here, because the opportunity is not here. So who\u2019s left here? Grandma and Grandpa.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Don&#8217;t read the comments. Never read the comments.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound familiar? But the reality of rural life in the Midwest, school officials say, is that younger people are fleeing. They want Starbucks and Thai restaurants, plentiful jobs and high-speed internet, and when they start families, they want schools with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/a-wisconsin-town-loses-its-school-and-the-new-york-times-is-on-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10048,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047\/revisions\/10048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}