{"id":4157,"date":"2025-10-10T01:59:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-little-known-us-land-in-england-bbc-global\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:59:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:59:37","slug":"the-little-known-us-land-in-england-bbc-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-little-known-us-land-in-england-bbc-global\/","title":{"rendered":"The little-known US land in England | BBC Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2nnRDNR7z2E?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The rural idyll of Runnymede has played a surprisingly important role in British history.<\/p>\n<p>Seen by many as the birthplace of modern democracy, it was witness to King John&#8217;s historic sealing of the Magna Carta over 800 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>However, what many people don&#8217;t realise is that it is also home to the only piece of American land in the whole of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>And it all dates back to one day in 1963 that changed history forever.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Global: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbc_global?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com<\/p>\n<p>#BBC #US #history<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2nnRDNR7z2E\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rural idyll of Runnymede has played a surprisingly important role in British history. Seen by many as the birthplace of modern democracy, it was witness to King John&#8217;s historic sealing of the Magna Carta over 800 years ago. However, what many people don&#8217;t realise is that it is also home to the only piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":4158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,7720,17,21,1367,18,193,77,496],"class_list":["post-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbcglobal","tag-bbcnews","tag-documentary","tag-explainers","tag-factual","tag-history","tag-science","tag-world","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157","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\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}