{"id":78723,"date":"2026-09-15T13:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/trump-appointed-kennedy-center-board-votes-to-close-institution-indefinitely\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:55:29","slug":"trump-appointed-kennedy-center-board-votes-to-close-institution-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/trump-appointed-kennedy-center-board-votes-to-close-institution-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-appointed Kennedy Center board votes to close institution indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Board overseeing memorial to John F Kennedy, a former president, cited safety and financial concerns for closure<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/14\/kennedy-center-bankruptcy-trump\">Kennedy Center leaders say Trump\u2019s name on facade may avoid \u2018fiscal collapse\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Trump-appointed leaders of the Kennedy Center voted Tuesday to immediately close the institution\u2019s performing arts building in Washington, citing safety and financial concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The riverside landmark, built as a memorial to President John F Kennedy, will be closed indefinitely to all visitors, according to the board of trustees. A spokesperson for Joyce Beatty, a representative and an ex-officio member of the board, confirmed the vote with the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/15\/trump-kennedy-center-renovations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board overseeing memorial to John F Kennedy, a former president, cited safety and financial concerns for closure Kennedy Center leaders say Trump\u2019s name on facade may avoid \u2018fiscal collapse\u2019 The Trump-appointed leaders of the Kennedy Center voted Tuesday to immediately close the institution\u2019s performing arts building in Washington, citing safety and financial concerns. The riverside &#8230; <a title=\"Trump-appointed Kennedy Center board votes to close institution indefinitely\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/trump-appointed-kennedy-center-board-votes-to-close-institution-indefinitely\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump-appointed Kennedy Center board votes to close institution indefinitely\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78723","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=78723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}