{"id":9,"date":"2007-12-27T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-01-13T00:57:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T05:57:50","slug":"how-do-you-say-kirkbride-building-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/how-do-you-say-kirkbride-building-in-chinese","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Say &#8220;Kirkbride Building&#8221; in Chinese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img HEIGHT=\"214\" ALT=\"Fergus Falls State Hospital\" SRC=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/071226.jpg\" WIDTH=\"484\" BORDER=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nA reader recently pointed\u00a0me\u00a0to an article\u00a0about a new <a TITLE=\"Firm Proposes New College for Fergus Falls\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.chinainsight.info\/oct2007\/oct2007fergusfallscollege.htm\">proposal for reuse of the Fergus Falls Kirkbride building<\/a> in Minnesota.\u00a0Apparently\u00a0there&#8217;s a plan in the works to turn\u00a0it into a college for Chinese language immersion and business studies. It&#8217;s a timely idea and\u00a0<a TITLE=\"Chinese Delegation Visits Minnesota, Discusses RTC\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.fergusfallsjournal.com\/news\/2007\/dec\/11\/chinese-delegation-visits-minnesota-discusses-rtc\/\">things are moving forward<\/a>,\u00a0but the article does mention if an agreement isn&#8217;t finalized within a year, the building may still be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s strange to think Chinese capital could help Minnesota preserve an historic structure. It makes sense though, and it doesn&#8217;t take a psychic to predict such investments from China will become more common as the 21st-century progresses. If this proposal goes through, they&#8217;re sure to benefit, as will Minnesota.\u00a0I hope it works out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader recently pointed\u00a0me\u00a0to an article\u00a0about a new proposal for reuse of the Fergus Falls Kirkbride building in Minnesota.\u00a0Apparently\u00a0there&#8217;s a plan in the works to turn\u00a0it into a college for Chinese language immersion and business studies. It&#8217;s a timely idea and\u00a0things are moving forward,\u00a0but the article does mention if an agreement isn&#8217;t finalized within a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,3],"tags":[18,15,16,17],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news","category-preservation","tag-chinese","tag-fergus-falls","tag-rtc","tag-school"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}