{"id":17533,"date":"2026-01-10T19:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/washington-national-opera-to-leave-kennedy-center-amid-trump-takeover\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T19:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:22:32","slug":"washington-national-opera-to-leave-kennedy-center-amid-trump-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/washington-national-opera-to-leave-kennedy-center-amid-trump-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington National Opera to leave Kennedy Center amid Trump takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kennedy Center on Friday confirmed the Washington National Opera (WNO) will leave the renowned venue. &ldquo;After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to part ways with the WNO due to a financially challenging relationship,&rdquo; a Kennedy Center spokesperson told NewsNation.  &ldquo;We believe this represents the best path forward for both organizations and&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/5682578-washington-opera-kennedy-center-exit\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kennedy Center on Friday confirmed the Washington National Opera (WNO) will leave the renowned venue. &ldquo;After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to part ways with the WNO due to a financially challenging relationship,&rdquo; a Kennedy Center spokesperson told NewsNation. &ldquo;We believe this represents the best path forward for both organizations and&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}