{"id":11558,"date":"2019-12-04T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11558"},"modified":"2019-12-02T00:25:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T06:25:38","slug":"north-winn-memorabilia-given-to-minnesota-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/north-winn-memorabilia-given-to-minnesota-school-district\/","title":{"rendered":"North Winn memorabilia given to Minnesota school district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/northwinnschool.jpg\" width=\"561\" height=\"190\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 25, 2016<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If Laura Ingalls had lived in Burr Oak, Iowa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitdecorah.com\/business\/laura-ingalls-wilder-museum\">130 years after she did<\/a>, she would have been a student at North Winneshiek Elementary School. Unless, that is, being three miles from the Minnesota border, she went to the Mabel-Canton school instead.<\/p>\n<p>After North Winn ceased to have a high school, students were offered the option of going just across the border to the school in Minnesota. Now that North Winn <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/decorah-north-winn-consolidation-vote-set\/\">has been absorbed into Decorah<\/a>, the reorganized district <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluffcountrynews.com\/content\/mabel-canton-decorah-sign-enrollment-agreement-students-border\">has a five-year agreement<\/a> that lets Iowa students continue to cross the border.<\/p>\n<p>The cross-state connection is strong enough that in October, a North Winn graduate presented a piece of school memorabilia \u2014 a mascot sign from the building \u2014 to the Mabel-Canton board. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluffcountrynews.com\/content\/north-winn-grad-details-history-presents-mascot-m-c-board\">The story is on the Bluff Country News website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 25, 2016 If Laura Ingalls had lived in Burr Oak, Iowa, 130 years after she did, she would have been a student at North Winneshiek Elementary School. Unless, that is, being three miles from the Minnesota border, she went &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/north-winn-memorabilia-given-to-minnesota-school-district\/\">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-11558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558","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=11558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11559,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions\/11559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}