{"id":43457,"date":"2016-02-24T08:45:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T06:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/43457\/on-this-day-in-1981-royal-engagement-announced\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T08:45:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T06:45:36","slug":"on-this-day-in-1981-royal-engagement-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2016\/02\/24\/on-this-day-in-1981-royal-engagement-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in 1981: Royal engagement announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 24 February 1981 Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Britain&#8217;s Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer. Looking back, it&#8217;s not difficult to see why the fairy tale turned into a horror story.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9mwx4jT9ld4' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Pic: Corbis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whatever love is&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; alarm bells rang before the wedding bells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":43458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681],"tags":[3504,3505,3506,3507,3508],"class_list":["post-43457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-engagement","tag-lady-di","tag-prince-charles","tag-princess-diana","tag-whatever-love-is"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["engagement","Lady Di","Prince Charles","Princess Diana","whatever love is"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}