{"id":483,"date":"2009-09-07T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T14:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2009-09-07T10:14:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T15:14:39","slug":"progress-sometimes-its-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/progress-sometimes-its-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress.  Sometimes it&#8217;s sad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some photos of the dismantling of the oldest building at my high school (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deemack.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dee-Mack High School in Mackinaw, Illinois<\/a>). Most of the other buildings have long been town down and replaced and this one was the last to be torn down and replaced.\u00a0 These photos are over a year old now.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been over 20 years since I hung out in this portion of the building with all of my high school friends.  Some of my fondest memories from this particular building include working and goofing off in the computer lab, ditto in the yearbook staff office, ditto in geometry class, and ditto the library and in study hall.\u00a0 Oh, and I almost forgot all about the cafeteria in the basement.\u00a0 Well, it was a lunch room anyways.\u00a0 Calling it a cafeteria implies that they actually cooked food in there.\u00a0 And who could forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/space-shuttle-challenger-mural-at-my-high-school\/\" target=\"_blank\">the big Shuttle mural<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks to my high school art teacher, Mrs Schultz, for forwarding these great photos to me.\u00a0 Click on a photo to see a full sized version.<\/p>\n<p>Please add your comments below to tell me (and the 3 people who read this blog regularly) what your favorite memories of old Dee Mack are!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2007-september-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-486\" title=\"2007-september-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2007-september-1-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"2007-september-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2007-september-1-400x266.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2007-september-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2007-september-1.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2007-september-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-487\" title=\"2007-september-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2007-september-2-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"2007-september-2\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2007-september-2-400x266.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2007-september-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2007-september-2.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-488\" title=\"2008-july-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-1-266x400.jpg\" alt=\"2008-july-1\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-1-266x400.jpg 266w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-1-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-1.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-490\" title=\"2008-july-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-2-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"2008-july-2\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-2-400x266.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-2.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It says &#8220;Mackinaw High School 1914&#8221; on the front of the building.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-491\" title=\"2008-july-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-3-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"2008-july-3\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-3-400x266.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2008-july-3.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some photos of the dismantling of the oldest building at my high school (Dee-Mack High School in Mackinaw, Illinois). Most of the other buildings have long been town down and replaced and this one was the last to be torn down and replaced.\u00a0 These photos are over a year old now. It&#8217;s been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[212,214,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}