{"id":10979,"date":"2019-05-22T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10979"},"modified":"2020-05-08T17:11:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:11:31","slug":"photos-34000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/photos-34000\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo(s) 34,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Also approximately my 2500th blog post (depending on when this actually goes up).<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nApril 19, 2017<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Abandoned schools aren’t unique to Iowa. They’re scattered across the Great Plains. I found emphasis on that as I drove across the southern tier (mostly) of Nebraska’s counties on US 136, then US 6. As is often the case in Iowa, many are visible a mile or more before you reach town.<\/p>\n

Filley, Nebraska, population 132, is about an hour south of Lincoln. It lost its school in 1999<\/a> in a merger with Adams, 14 miles away. A shade under two decades later, trees had overrun the front of the oldest building (top photo).<\/p>\n

Right next to the school was the baseball field with a football scoreboard. Concrete pads marked where the bleachers had been. There’s a modern playground set behind a locked restroom facility for the athletics. The community tried its best to provide for the children.<\/p>\n

Filley Community Field<\/em>
\nNebraska Game & Parks Commission<\/em>
\nBureau of Outdoor Recreation, Department of Interior<\/em>
\n1977<\/em><\/p>\n

I would see more abandoned schools the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Also approximately my 2500th blog post (depending on when this actually goes up). April 19, 2017 Abandoned schools aren’t unique to Iowa. They’re scattered across the Great Plains. I found emphasis on that as I drove across the southern tier … Continue reading →<\/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":[7,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools","category-sequences","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","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=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12111,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions\/12111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}