{"id":364183,"date":"2026-07-24T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/we-became-best-friends-then-we-discovered-we-were-brother-and-sister-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:00:20","slug":"we-became-best-friends-then-we-discovered-we-were-brother-and-sister-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/we-became-best-friends-then-we-discovered-we-were-brother-and-sister-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"We became best friends. Then we discovered we were brother and sister | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/4G0Rna-5pR0\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"We became best friends. 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