{"id":7513,"date":"2016-05-24T10:10:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7513"},"modified":"2016-05-22T20:51:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T01:51:05","slug":"corwith-school-building-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/corwith-school-building-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Corwith school building gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7537\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CWBackBus.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CWBackBus.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CWBackBus-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><em><strong>June 19, 2015:<\/strong> The back of the Corwith school building.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/2016\/05\/18\/lost-schools-another-iowa-school-corwith-wesley-demolished\/84555138\/ \">The <em>Des Moines Register<\/em> was there last week to cover the demise of the century-old school building in Corwith.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The district dissolved at the end of last school year. Nearly all of CW&#8217;s students go to Lu Verne and grades 7-12 go to Algona.<\/p>\n<p>(As I have said before, it is technically correct to say the &#8220;four-thousand-xth&#8221; district to close since 1950, but Iowa was shedding one-room schools by the hundreds each year until settling to 458 districts in 1965. To put it in a different context, Corwith-Wesley was the 122nd district to shutter in 50 years.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 19, 2015: The back of the Corwith school building. The Des Moines Register was there last week to cover the demise of the century-old school building in Corwith. The district dissolved at the end of last school year. Nearly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/corwith-school-building-gone\/\">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-7513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513","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=7513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7538,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions\/7538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}