{"id":5353,"date":"2014-10-04T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2014-10-03T23:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T04:58:58","slug":"moorhead-school-rescued-from-abandonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/moorhead-school-rescued-from-abandonment\/","title":{"rendered":"Moorhead school rescued from abandonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of sad stories about abandoned Iowa schools, so when there&#8217;s a success, we should give credit where it&#8217;s due.<\/p>\n<p>East Monona hasn&#8217;t been a school district since 2004, and the building in Moorhead soon had problems, but the gym and nearby areas have been <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/columnists\/gallagher\/gallagher-moorhead-couple-savors-old-school-wedding-reception\/article_81db8fdd-1780-5bfe-bc4f-95cb9d0883ce.html\">restored enough to host a wedding reception<\/a>, the <em>Sioux City Journal<\/em> reports. The building got new owners in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The description of what happened to the building in the intervening decade is a warning sign of just how fast a once-proud building can fall past the point of no return. This one, at least part of it, was saved in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of sad stories about abandoned Iowa schools, so when there&#8217;s a success, we should give credit where it&#8217;s due. East Monona hasn&#8217;t been a school district since 2004, and the building in Moorhead soon had problems, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/moorhead-school-rescued-from-abandonment\/\">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-5353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353","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=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5354,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions\/5354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}