{"id":11024,"date":"2020-02-19T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11024"},"modified":"2020-02-17T01:51:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T07:51:39","slug":"the-optimism-that-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-optimism-that-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The optimism that was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11034\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BPCentralElem.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BPCentralElem.jpg 640w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BPCentralElem-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>October 16, 2009:<\/strong> Belle Plaine High School (1911), last used as Central Elementary during the school year this photo was taken, was torn down in 2016-17.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was going to use this as an intro to a post, but its length and overall spirit lend themselves to a post by itself.<\/p>\n<p><em>In a quiet and determined manner the people of Benton county have turned their faces toward the betterment of their schools. A fine high school building was built in Belle Plaine some two or three years ago. It now has one of the best high school buildings and schools in the state. \u2026 Newhall is already occupying one of the best small town school buildings in the state. It has a school in keeping with the building. Keystone is taking pride in showing its handsome new school building to managers within its gates. And well it can afford to. It is a strictly up to date school building with all the modem conveniences. It, too, has a school in keeping with the building. Van Horne, not daunted because it failed to establish a consolidated district, has gone ahead with and will vote bonds for a new building which will rank with the best there is in the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 &#8220;Walford to have a splendid school,&#8221; <em>Vinton Eagle,<\/em> July 14, 1916<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 16, 2009: Belle Plaine High School (1911), last used as Central Elementary during the school year this photo was taken, was torn down in 2016-17. I was going to use this as an intro to a post, but its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-optimism-that-was\/\">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-11024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024","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=11024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11035,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024\/revisions\/11035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}