{"id":12120,"date":"2020-05-15T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12120"},"modified":"2020-05-08T17:37:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:37:43","slug":"mallard-school-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/mallard-school-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallard school gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As covered <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/mallard-schools-goose-is-cooked\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/mallard-school-will-be-demolished\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/one-last-cheer-for-mallard\/\">here<\/a>, the school building in Mallard was a victim of declining enrollment in the West Bend-Mallard school district in northwest Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>The Emmetsburg News website <a href=\"http:\/\/emmetsburgnews.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/532153\/The-End-of-An-Era-The-Demolition-of-the-Mallard-School.html\">has an eight-paragraph story<\/a> about the school, ending with the phrase &#8220;the demolition we have today.&#8221; It might be partially a metaphor, but I was expecting the building to come down this school year, so I&#8217;ll count that.<\/p>\n<p>The story, more a reminiscence\/appreciation really, also mentions West Bend and Mallard began sharing in 1991-92.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As covered here, here, and here, the school building in Mallard was a victim of declining enrollment in the West Bend-Mallard school district in northwest Iowa. The Emmetsburg News website has an eight-paragraph story about the school, ending with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/mallard-school-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-12120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120","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=12120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12121,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120\/revisions\/12121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}