{"id":7750,"date":"2016-07-27T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2016-07-27T00:36:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T05:36:32","slug":"new-riverside-school-opens-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/new-riverside-school-opens-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"New Riverside school opens in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my &#8220;beats&#8221; intersect with an Iowa DOT press release about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2016\/07\/iowa-dot-to-begin-work-at-us-59-and-us-6-near-riverside-high-school.html\">turning the intersection of US 6 and US 59 south of Oakland into a four-way stop<\/a>\u00a0before the new Riverside school opens. It was supposed to open\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ks957.com\/riverside-school-construction-is-well-behind-schedule\/\">in the middle of last year, then March,<\/a> and then it just wasn&#8217;t going to happen before school was out.<\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonpareilonline.com\/news\/local\/riverside-dreams-big-with-new-building-campus\/article_239b1e7c-00ca-11e4-876d-0019bb2963f4.html\">took seven bond referendums<\/a> for this new complex to pass. The existing high school in Oakland will close. The Carson building will lose its junior high students but keep the elementary for now.<\/p>\n<p>(Side note: Why is the trend to say &#8220;prior to&#8221; instead of &#8220;before&#8221;? Do you think it sounds more formal or something?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my &#8220;beats&#8221; intersect with an Iowa DOT press release about turning the intersection of US 6 and US 59 south of Oakland into a four-way stop\u00a0before the new Riverside school opens. It was supposed to open\u00a0in the middle &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/new-riverside-school-opens-in-august\/\">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-7750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750","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=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7765,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions\/7765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}