{"id":69103,"date":"2026-03-16T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/kennedy-center-board-approves-two-year-closure-for-250-million-renovation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:57:14","slug":"kennedy-center-board-approves-two-year-closure-for-250-million-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/kennedy-center-board-approves-two-year-closure-for-250-million-renovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center board approves two-year closure for $250 million renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump-appointed board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted unanimously Monday to shutter the arts mecca for two years for renovations.\u201cMajor renovations are required to keep the facility functional, and that will start right after July 4,\u201d the center&#8217;s vice president of public relations, Roma Daravi, said in a statement.\u201cThis project will transform the Center into a world-class destination worthy of the nation\u2019s legacy and future \u2014 a landmark where every American is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump-appointed board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted unanimously Monday to shutter the arts mecca for two years for renovations.\u201cMajor renovations are required to keep the facility functional, and that will start right after July 4,\u201d the center&#8217;s vice president of public relations, Roma Daravi, said in a statement.\u201cThis project will &#8230; <a title=\"Kennedy Center board approves two-year closure for $250 million renovation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/kennedy-center-board-approves-two-year-closure-for-250-million-renovation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kennedy Center board approves two-year closure for $250 million renovation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}