{"id":17595,"date":"2026-02-03T18:33:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=17595"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:22:01","slug":"bye-bye-kennedy-center-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2026\/02\/03\/bye-bye-kennedy-center-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye-Bye Kennedy Center? (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/03\/arts\/music\/trumps-kennedy-center.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.Usjw.3fDfJMUyKw65&amp;smid=url-share\">Trump&#8217;s Kennedy Center takeover<\/a> has been nothing short of disastrous. (Cancelled performances, empty seats, unsold tickets, bookers unable to book.) So, in a vain attempt to hide the damage he&#8217;s personally caused, Trump announced he&#8217;s closing the venue in July for a 2-year renovation.  (I guess affixing fake gold takes time.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Why&#8217;s the Kennedy Center soon closing?<br \/>Cuz Trump WRECKED it; its rep&#8217;s decomposing.<br \/>Most great talent says, &#8220;No!<br \/>Won&#8217;t perform there!&#8221; And so,<br \/>It&#8217;s near death from a ticket sale hosing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s Kennedy Center takeover has been nothing short of disastrous. (Cancelled performances, empty seats, unsold tickets, bookers unable to book.) So, in a vain attempt to hide the damage he&#8217;s personally caused, Trump announced he&#8217;s closing the venue in July for a 2-year renovation. (I guess affixing fake gold takes time.) Why&#8217;s the Kennedy Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2975,1550,1186,1094,26,1193,6,3543,467],"tags":[4363,2897,4362,4364],"class_list":["post-17595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-carnage","category-donald-trump","category-government-services","category-leadership-humor","category-media-satire","category-money-finance-humor","category-political-limericks","category-trump","category-washington","tag-dc-concerts","tag-donald-trump","tag-kennedy-center","tag-kennedy-center-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17595"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17601,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595\/revisions\/17601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}