{"id":10637,"date":"2019-01-28T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10637"},"modified":"2019-01-22T01:11:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T07:11:09","slug":"mallard-school-will-be-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/mallard-school-will-be-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallard school will be demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10638\" alt=\"mallardschaerial\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mallardschaerial.jpg\" width=\"323\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mallardschaerial.jpg 323w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mallardschaerial-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>2017 photo via Iowa Geographic Map Server<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Mallard City Council doesn&#8217;t want the largest building in town.<\/p>\n<p>The West Bend-Mallard school district had a work session with the Mallard City Council on October 16 to discuss the fate of the Mallard school, which will <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/mallard-schools-goose-is-cooked\/\">close at the end of this year<\/a> because of continued decline in enrollment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-bend.k12.ia.us\/sites\/default\/files\/Oct%202018%20Board%20Minutes%20w%20Mallard.pdf\">According to the minutes<\/a>, council members were not interested in taking possession of the building and said &#8220;they don\u2019t want the property to become an eye soar&#8221; [sic].<\/p>\n<p>The core building is from 1917, but the additions were built with the same color bricks to create a unified appearance. All of it will come down in a time frame to be determined.\u00a0There&#8217;s nothing we can do but sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 photo via Iowa Geographic Map Server The Mallard City Council doesn&#8217;t want the largest building in town. The West Bend-Mallard school district had a work session with the Mallard City Council on October 16 to discuss the fate of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/mallard-school-will-be-demolished\/\">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-10637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637","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=10637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10639,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions\/10639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}