{"id":4841,"date":"2014-05-04T10:05:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2014-05-05T00:55:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T05:55:56","slug":"exira-school-building-fire-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/exira-school-building-fire-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Exira school building fire today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This school fire is a good one \u2014 Exira is planning a controlled burn of its original brick building. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/4b04efc6751b4af29646cfab415a196e\/IA--School-Burning-Exira\">The AP article about it<\/a> notes that it was closed not just because of declining enrollment, but because &#8220;The structure was starting to shift.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schools burned down with some regularity into the beginning of the 20th century \u2014 the core 1917 building in Traer replaced one destroyed in a fire. I don&#8217;t know when the last major accidental fire in an Iowa school was. The Cass County Courthouse burned down in 1932, one of two courthouse fires in the 20th century <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyinc.com\/iowa\/ia-counties\/#courthouse\">according to this list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/2014\/05\/04\/exira-controlled-school-burn-delayed\/8696849\/\">Burn has been delayed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This school fire is a good one \u2014 Exira is planning a controlled burn of its original brick building. The AP article about it notes that it was closed not just because of declining enrollment, but because &#8220;The structure was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/exira-school-building-fire-today\/\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","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=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}