{"id":391,"date":"2009-06-19T18:57:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T18:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2009-06-19T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T18:57:35","slug":"schools-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/06\/19\/schools-out\/","title":{"rendered":"School&#8217;s out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-392\" title=\"peo-98-0090-lhr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/peo-98-0090-lhr.jpg\" alt=\"Students on the steps of the old Kingston High School, May 6, 1892\" width=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/peo-98-0090-lhr.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/peo-98-0090-lhr-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students on the steps of the old Kingston High School, May 6, 1892<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The spring is sweet for many reasons, not least of which is the end of the school year. These Kingston High School students, posed on the steps of that august institute of learning, probably looked forward to three months off as much as their counterparts today.<\/p>\n<p>The old high school stands no more; the site on Main Street is now occupied by the Kingston Police Department.\u00a0\u00a0 Dedicated on May 10, 1867, KHS served generations of students until replaced in 1955 by the brand new Silver Lake Regional High School. The school-age population had long outgrown the old building, which according to one newspaper account &#8220;was inadequate and unsound&#8230;in a state of condemnation by the State building inspector.&#8221;\u00a0 The KHS building stood vacant until October 1962, when it was demolished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spring is sweet for many reasons, not least of which is the end of the school year. These Kingston High School students, posed on the steps of that august institute of learning, probably looked forward to three months off as much as their counterparts today. The old high school stands no more; the site &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/06\/19\/schools-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;School&#8217;s out!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-schools","tag-class-portraits"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}