{"id":27268,"date":"2013-02-11T21:07:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/pope-benedict-xvi-resign-reports-105351307.html"},"modified":"2013-02-11T21:07:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:07:36","slug":"pope-benedict-resigns-vatican-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/pope-benedict-resigns-vatican-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict XVI resigns due to &#8216;age and bad health&#8217;, Vatican confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">Pope Benedict XVI is to resign on February 28, the Vatican has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Catholic Church will step down after almost eight years in the post, having been elected in April 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said: &#8220;The pope announced that he will leave his ministry at 8:00pm (7pm UK time) on February 28.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He will become the first pope to resign in centuries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More follows&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI is to resign on February 28, the Vatican has announced.<br \/>\nThe leader of the Catholic Church will step down after almost eight years in the post, having been elected in April 2005.<br \/>\nVatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said: &#8220;The pope ann&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}