{"id":205,"date":"2026-09-03T21:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/interior-secretary-announces-excavation-start-for-trumps-proposed-arch\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T21:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:57:32","slug":"interior-secretary-announces-excavation-start-for-trumps-proposed-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/interior-secretary-announces-excavation-start-for-trumps-proposed-arch\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Secretary Announces Excavation Start for Trump&#8217;s Proposed Arch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced that excavation activities for President Donald Trump\u2019s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch are set to commence within a two-week window. Burgum shared the update on social media, noting the lengthy delay before construction can begin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to announce that after a very long wait (over 125 years!), we are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck,&#8221; Burgum wrote on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The project is located at Memorial Circle on Columbia Island, positioned between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interior Secretary Doug Burgum confirmed that excavation work for the Great Triumphal Arch on Columbia Island will begin within the next two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}