{"id":3294,"date":"2013-04-27T19:41:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T00:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2013-04-27T19:41:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T00:41:20","slug":"kossuth-county-area-schools-and-rural-iowas-population-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/kossuth-county-area-schools-and-rural-iowas-population-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Kossuth County Area Schools and Rural Iowa&#8217;s Population Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/kossuth\/KossuthEnrollment.jpg\" width=\"481\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As population and school enrollments in rural Iowa keep shrinking, many districts are finding it increasing difficult to stay afloat. One place this change is keenly being felt is in north-central Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than make this essay a blog post, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/kossuth\/kossuth.html\">I made an independent page about it.<\/a>\u00a0It will be in the &#8220;Key Posts&#8221; links on the sidebar for lack of a better place to put it, and I&#8217;ll try to keep this reference high on the blog for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As population and school enrollments in rural Iowa keep shrinking, many districts are finding it increasing difficult to stay afloat. One place this change is keenly being felt is in north-central Iowa. Rather than make this essay a blog post, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/kossuth-county-area-schools-and-rural-iowas-population-collapse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","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=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}