{"id":8333,"date":"2017-02-17T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8333"},"modified":"2017-02-19T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:18:53","slug":"most-of-walnut-school-will-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/most-of-walnut-school-will-be-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Most of Walnut school will be saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8334\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WalnutSchool.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WalnutSchool.jpg 620w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WalnutSchool-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><em><strong>August 2, 2016:<\/strong> A view of the Walnut school complex.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Something to end the week on a little higher note.<\/p>\n<p>The town of Walnut will turn its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/news\/metro\/walnut-iowa-to-turn-former-school-building-into-community-center\/article_d306ebb7-a882-5066-bf8f-6a66b7a36b07.html\">now-closed school into a community center<\/a>, the <em>Omaha World-Herald<\/em> reports. The core is a 1910 building, but a gym was built in 2000. It would be a shame to see any of it fall into disrepair, so this is encouraging news.<\/p>\n<p>The article said part of the school, the elementary, has been demolished, but I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the 1951 addition seen in the foreground of the photo or a different addition on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: A reader told me it&#8217;s the elementary addition in the foreground and sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KreeaJOdv4c\">video link of the demolition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2, 2016: A view of the Walnut school complex. Something to end the week on a little higher note. The town of Walnut will turn its now-closed school into a community center, the Omaha World-Herald reports. The core is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/most-of-walnut-school-will-be-saved\/\">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-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","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=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8373,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions\/8373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}