{"id":207,"date":"2011-08-19T12:05:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T17:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2011-09-01T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T21:44:59","slug":"946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/946\/","title":{"rendered":"946"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/searsborolgs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-211\" title=\"Searsboro sign on old IA 225\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/searsborolgs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/searsborolgs.jpg 320w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/searsborolgs-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>February: Searsboro, population 148, finds out that its post office is among the first mentioned in what will become of a wave of potential closures.<\/p>\n<p>July 24:<a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/24\/enthusiasm-for-perry-at-iowa-event\/\"> The New York Times<\/a> runs a blog post with a Searsboro dateline related to the Republican presidential contest.<\/p>\n<p>Late July: Searsboro finds out that its post office will close September 24.<\/p>\n<p>August 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/oskynews.org\/?p=28884\">The town votes to disincorporate.<\/a> It follows Littleport in 2005, Athelstan in 2004 and Kent in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Searsboro, Iowa: 1849-2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February: Searsboro, population 148, finds out that its post office is among the first mentioned in what will become of a wave of potential closures. July 24: The New York Times runs a blog post with a Searsboro dateline related &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/946\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-offices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","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=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}