{"id":7160,"date":"2016-08-30T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7160"},"modified":"2016-08-26T22:52:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T03:52:01","slug":"j-is-for-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/j-is-for-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"J is for Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7839\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JamaicaSchool1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JamaicaSchool1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JamaicaSchool1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>May 15, 2011:<\/strong> Former Panorama Elementary building in Jamaica.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Panorama school district needed five different votes in the 1990s to reach a 60% supermajority on a bond issue to build a new elementary school, and it was finally dragged across the finish line in September 1996 (<em>Guthrie Center Times<\/em>). A significant reason for the repeated rejection likely was the fact that a new elementary would result in closing schools in both Jamaica and Linden.<\/p>\n<p>Jamaica was the last building in use from the Yale-Jamaica-Bagley school district \u2014 the other two closed in 1989, when YJB and Panora-Linden merged \u2014 and the opening of a new elementary in Panora in 1999 was indeed the death knell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 15, 2011: Former Panorama Elementary building in Jamaica. The Panorama school district needed five different votes in the 1990s to reach a 60% supermajority on a bond issue to build a new elementary school, and it was finally dragged &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/j-is-for-jamaica\/\">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":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools","category-sequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","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=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7876,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions\/7876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}