{"id":811889,"date":"2026-08-13T04:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/811889\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T04:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:48:07","slug":"trumps-kennedy-center-takeover-pushes-national-symphony-orchestra-into-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/811889\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Kennedy Center takeover pushes National Symphony Orchestra into crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MOLR5LMFZVADRK543657NCWFFQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The National Symphony Orchestra has rapidly lost many of its audience members and individual donors since President Donald Trump seized control of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, sending revenue into a two-year free fall that has pushed the internationally acclaimed orchestra into the deepest financial crisis in its recent history, according to current and former employees and confidential documents obtained by The Washington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Symphony Orchestra has rapidly lost many of its audience members and individual donors since President Donald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-811889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}