{"id":671061,"date":"2026-09-19T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T13:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=671061"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T13:38:13","slug":"thousands-join-protest-outside-kennedy-center-expressing-concern-that-trump-might-tear-it-down-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=671061","title":{"rendered":"Thousands join protest outside Kennedy Center, expressing concern that Trump might tear it down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people joined outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Friday evening to protest President Trump&#8217;s plans for the facility, lending their voices to a chorus of organizations and individuals who have been horrified that he might make good on his threat to close and tear down the storied institution.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/09\/18\/Trump_Kennedy_Center_617_4_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" title=\"Thousands join protest outside Kennedy Center, expressing concern that Trump might tear it down\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people joined outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Friday evening to protest President Trump&#8217;s plans for the facility, lending their voices to a chorus of organizations and individuals who have been horrified that he might make good on his threat to close and tear down the storied institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/671051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}