{"id":1110,"date":"2023-07-31T18:58:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T18:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-worlds-first-long-distance-car-journey-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T18:58:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T18:58:41","slug":"the-worlds-first-long-distance-car-journey-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-worlds-first-long-distance-car-journey-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The world&#39;s first long-distance car journey \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bb5EIWymZp4?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In 1888, Bertha Benz, wife of automotive inventor Karl Benz, set off on a groundbreaking trip. A pioneer and investor in her own right, Bertha took the world&#8217;s first combustion engine-powered car on the world&#8217;s first long-distance car journey.<\/p>\n<p>The 100km journey was full of inventive problem-solving. Bertha made numerous stops to source fuel, fix the carburettor and the brakes. Her trip became a vital road test of the car&#8217;s good points as well as highlighting teething issues.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Next Stop Stories<br \/>\nExecutive produced &#038; narrated by Howard Timberlake<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #car #history<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bb5EIWymZp4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1888, Bertha Benz, wife of automotive inventor Karl Benz, set off on a groundbreaking trip. A pioneer and investor in her own right, Bertha took the world&#8217;s first combustion engine-powered car on the world&#8217;s first long-distance car journey. The 100km journey was full of inventive problem-solving. Bertha made numerous stops to source fuel, fix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}