{"id":324580,"date":"2017-09-04T19:17:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T18:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/royal-baby-frenzy-relegates-brexit-north-korea-to-backburner\/"},"modified":"2017-09-04T19:17:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T18:17:35","slug":"royal-baby-frenzy-relegates-brexit-north-korea-to-backburner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/royal-baby-frenzy-relegates-brexit-north-korea-to-backburner\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal baby frenzy relegates Brexit &amp; North Korea to backburner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2017.09\/thumbnail\/59ad4603fc7e93dc3c8b4567.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 4 Sep, 2017 12:41 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 4 Sep, 2017 14:32 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Forget Brexit negotiations or the world\u2019s potential nuclear crisis; the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced the impending arrival of their third child and, naturally, a total media meltdown followed. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>The pair revealed the news via the Kensington Palace Twitter account, announcing that \u201c<em>the Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A breaking news frenzy ensued and soon, #RoyalBaby, #Kate Middleton, #Prince William, #William and Kate, and #Kensington Palace all began trending worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Some Twitter users pointed out that William and Kate\u2019s unborn will fall outside the UK\u2019s new two-child tax benefit limit. Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/child-tax-credit-exceptions-to-the-2-child-limit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 2017<\/a>, the third child born to a UK family is no longer entitled to child tax credit.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it\u2019s highly unlikely the royal family would miss the payments when taxpayers shell out more than <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/where-does-the-royal-family-get-money-2017-1?r=US&amp;IR=T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a340 million<\/a> every year to keep the British monarchy running.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/401954-royal-baby-william-kate\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 4 Sep, 2017 12:41 Edited time: 4 Sep, 2017 14:32 Forget Brexit negotiations or the world\u2019s potential nuclear crisis; the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced the impending arrival of their third child and, naturally, a total media meltdown followed. The pair revealed the news via the Kensington Palace Twitter account, announcing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324580","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}