{"id":4319,"date":"2013-10-14T15:04:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T15:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2024-04-28T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T14:51:16","slug":"feds-try-to-shut-down-privately-owned-mount-vernon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/10\/14\/feds-try-to-shut-down-privately-owned-mount-vernon\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Try to Shut Down Privately Owned Mount Vernon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Vernon is the former plantation of George Washington and is owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies\u2019 Association, which doesn\u2019t receive any government funding. The attraction\u2019s official website reads, \u201cNO SHUTDOWN HERE \u2013 The Federal government may be shut down, but Washington\u2019s home remains open. Mount Vernon has remained a private non-profit for more than 150 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, a dispute began when the National Park Service began putting up barricades to block off the facility\u2019s car park, blockading the entrance as well as a spot where tour buses turn around.<\/p>\n<p>The parking lots are co-owned by Mount Vernon and the NPS, but require no immediate maintenance at all, meaning the decision to close them down was completely unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>The feds even blocked off a small area consisting of just three parking spaces.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry131014-190359\">Feds Try to Shut Down Privately Owned Mount Vernon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Vernon is the former plantation of George Washington and is owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies\u2019 Association, which doesn\u2019t receive any government funding. The attraction\u2019s official website reads, \u201cNO SHUTDOWN HERE \u2013 The Federal government may be shut down, but Washington\u2019s home remains open. Mount Vernon has remained a private non-profit for more than 150 years.\u201d However, a dispute began when the National Park Service began putting up barricades to block off the facility\u2019s car park, blockading the entrance as well as a spot where tour buses turn around. The parking lots are co-owned by Mount Vernon and the NPS, but require no immediate maintenance at all, meaning the decision to close them down was completely unnecessary. The feds even blocked off a small area consisting of just three parking spaces. via Feds Try to Shut Down Privately Owned Mount Vernon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1251,1548],"class_list":["post-4319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-obama","tag-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33604,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions\/33604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}