{"id":4963,"date":"2026-03-23T03:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/who-was-the-real-captain-jack-sparrow\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T03:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:11:20","slug":"who-was-the-real-captain-jack-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/who-was-the-real-captain-jack-sparrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was the real Captain Jack Sparrow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YNvsmVgK44I?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Discover the story of the man who inspired Captain Jack Sparrow \u2013 and no, we don&#8217;t mean Keith Richards.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a feature by Giles Milton for BBC History Revealed<\/p>\n<p>Illustration: Su Gent<br \/>\nImages: Getty<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YNvsmVgK44I\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the story of the man who inspired Captain Jack Sparrow \u2013 and no, we don&#8217;t mean Keith Richards. Based on a feature by Giles Milton for BBC History Revealed Illustration: Su Gent Images: Getty source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150698,"featured_media":4964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9910,9911,9912,9913],"class_list":["post-4963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-jack-sparrow","tag-piracy","tag-pirate-history","tag-pirates","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963","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\/4155150698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}