{"id":4719,"date":"2026-02-04T22:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-3000-year-old-history-of-the-passport-bbc-global\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:16:42","slug":"the-3000-year-old-history-of-the-passport-bbc-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-3000-year-old-history-of-the-passport-bbc-global\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3,000-year-old history of the passport | BBC Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Js5J8QsmXxA?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The modern passport was introduced as a temporary measure after World War One, but its history spans thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Patrick Bixby, author of License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport, explains how it has evolved into a deeply emotional part of our personal archives.<\/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 #history #travel<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Js5J8QsmXxA\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The modern passport was introduced as a temporary measure after World War One, but its history spans thousands of years. Professor Patrick Bixby, author of License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport, explains how it has evolved into a deeply emotional part of our personal archives. Subscribe to BBC Global: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbc_global?sub_confirmation=1 For the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":4720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-4719","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\/4719","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=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}