{"id":10520,"date":"2018-12-13T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10520"},"modified":"2018-12-12T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T07:22:20","slug":"albion-school-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/albion-school-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Albion school is gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10521\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/AlbionCornerstone.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/AlbionCornerstone.jpg 560w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/AlbionCornerstone-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>August 10, 2008:<\/strong> Cornerstone of the Albion school, Marshall County.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t tell you how many times I passed by the Albion school building on the way to\/from Ames or Des Moines and beyond. It was such a fixture that I dawdled a bit on photographing it (but as you can see I got one day).<\/p>\n<p>It was demolished earlier this month. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesrepublican.com\/news\/todays-news\/2018\/12\/memories-live-on-in-hearts-of-albion-school-alumni\/\">Story and photos: <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesrepublican.com\/news\/todays-news\/2018\/12\/memories-live-on-in-hearts-of-albion-school-alumni\/\">Marshalltown Times-Republican<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Albion was one of the towns that fought futile fights to keep their school open. But the Marshalltown School District&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/iowa\/supreme-court\/1983\/67199-0.html\">vote in March 1981<\/a> &#8220;was merely the last event in a long process during which the problems of declining enrollments, budgetary constraints and the prospect of closing attendance centers were studied, discussed and debated &#8230; .&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 10, 2008: Cornerstone of the Albion school, Marshall County. I couldn&#8217;t tell you how many times I passed by the Albion school building on the way to\/from Ames or Des Moines and beyond. It was such a fixture that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/albion-school-is-gone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520","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=10520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10522,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520\/revisions\/10522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}