{"id":69794,"date":"2026-03-23T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/maryland-park-closed-after-string-of-explosive-devices-found\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:55:24","slug":"maryland-park-closed-after-string-of-explosive-devices-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/maryland-park-closed-after-string-of-explosive-devices-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland park closed after string of explosive devices found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials say bomb squad called to Fort Washington Park, which has been closed by National Park Service<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Authorities found several explosive devices across a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/maryland\">Maryland<\/a> park over the weekend, prompting the park\u2019s closure.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1U1ZuAMVTA\/\">statement<\/a> on Monday, the Prince George\u2019s county fire department said that its bomb squad responded to Fort Washington Park after \u201cseveral explosive devices were located\u201d, prompting the US Park Police to close the approximately 341-acre site.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/23\/maryland-fort-washington-park-explosives-found\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials say bomb squad called to Fort Washington Park, which has been closed by National Park Service Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Authorities found several explosive devices across a Maryland park over the weekend, prompting the park\u2019s closure. In a statement on Monday, the Prince &#8230; <a title=\"Maryland park closed after string of explosive devices found\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/maryland-park-closed-after-string-of-explosive-devices-found\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Maryland park closed after string of explosive devices found\">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-69794","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\/69794","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=69794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}