{"id":16304,"date":"2026-05-28T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16304"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:59:42","slug":"des-moines-moulton-elementary-ends-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/des-moines-moulton-elementary-ends-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Des Moines&#8217; Moulton Elementary ends service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moulton Elementary School in Des Moines, the core of which began life as the original Des Moines North High School, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/des-moines-city-council-approves-demolition-of-moulton-elementary-school\/70149350\">will be demolished this summer<\/a>. The oldest part is 110 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The Des Moines City Council approved demolition in January. It will be replaced with what the school district is calling the &#8220;Moulton Performing and Visual Arts Signature School.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Or they could work on having good band\/chorus\/theater and art programs at all the schools, but I digress.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moulton Elementary School in Des Moines, the core of which began life as the original Des Moines North High School, will be demolished this summer. The oldest part is 110 years old. The Des Moines City Council approved demolition in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/des-moines-moulton-elementary-ends-service\/\">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-16304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304","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=16304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16307,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions\/16307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}