{"id":1017,"date":"2026-09-05T17:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/kennedy-center-closes-briefly-after-ceiling-collapse-in-grand-foyer\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:35:17","slug":"kennedy-center-closes-briefly-after-ceiling-collapse-in-grand-foyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/kennedy-center-closes-briefly-after-ceiling-collapse-in-grand-foyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center Closes Briefly After Ceiling Collapse in Grand Foyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A section of the ceiling in the Kennedy Center&#8217;s Grand Foyer collapsed on Friday evening, coinciding with heavy rainfall across the Washington, D.C. area. The incident led officials to temporarily close the main building, though the center confirmed that no injuries were sustained.<\/p>\n<p>The Kennedy Center shared photographs from the scene depicting debris from the fallen ceiling. The event has drawn commentary regarding safety and maintenance, with some observers noting the situation aligned with previous statements by President Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ceiling collapse at the Kennedy Center&#8217;s Grand Foyer on Friday prompted a temporary closure, with no injuries reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2176,129,2007,359,36,554],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-building-collapse","tag-congress","tag-kennedy-center","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}