{"id":50497,"date":"2026-06-19T09:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50497"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:19:03","slug":"reflecting-pool-turns-green-paint-peels-after-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50497","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting Pool Turns Green, Paint Peels After Renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Reflecting Pool Turns Green, Paint Peels After Renovation<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Reflecting Pool Turns Green, Paint Peels After Renovation<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Algae blooms have hit the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which underwent a $14.2 million repair project. Blue paint appeared to be chipping from the bottom.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cThe reflecting pool is greener than I have ever seen it before due to algae.\u201d \u201cI was expecting to see blue, but green is O.K.\u201d \u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t think you can fight mother nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Algae blooms have hit the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which underwent a $14.2 million repair project. Blue paint appeared to be chipping from the bottom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Julie Yoon, Jackeline Luna and Alisa Shodiyev Kaff<\/p>\n<p>June 19, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Reflecting Pool Turns Green, Paint Peels After Renovation transcript Back transcript Reflecting Pool Turns Green, Paint Peels After Renovation Algae blooms have hit the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which underwent a $14.2 million repair project. Blue paint appeared to be chipping from the bottom. \u201cThe reflecting pool is greener than I have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[728,5176,24811,9044,13898,22737,8878],"class_list":{"0":"post-50497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-green","9":"tag-paint","10":"tag-peels","11":"tag-pool","12":"tag-reflecting","13":"tag-renovation","14":"tag-turns"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}