{"id":5785,"date":"2026-08-24T19:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-extraordinary-stories-behind-the-elements-bbc-earth-science\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T19:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:34:47","slug":"the-extraordinary-stories-behind-the-elements-bbc-earth-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-extraordinary-stories-behind-the-elements-bbc-earth-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The Extraordinary Stories Behind the Elements | BBC Earth Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OhZtpAuAD8Y?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Some elements make life possible. Others have changed the course of history. Discover the remarkable stories hidden within five extraordinary members of the periodic table.<\/p>\n<p>Best of Earth Science: http:\/\/bit.ly\/EarthLabOriginals<br \/>\nBest of BBC Earth: http:\/\/bit.ly\/TheBestOfBBCEarthVideos <\/p>\n<p>This is a channel from BBC Studios who help fund new BBC programmes. Service information and feedback: http:\/\/bbcworldwide.com\/vod-feedback&#8211;contact-details.aspx<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OhZtpAuAD8Y\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some elements make life possible. Others have changed the course of history. Discover the remarkable stories hidden within five extraordinary members of the periodic table. Best of Earth Science: http:\/\/bit.ly\/EarthLabOriginals Best of BBC Earth: http:\/\/bit.ly\/TheBestOfBBCEarthVideos This is a channel from BBC Studios who help fund new BBC programmes. Service information and feedback: http:\/\/bbcworldwide.com\/vod-feedback&#8211;contact-details.aspx source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150516,"featured_media":5786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2254,7742,550,7740,2255,146,77,762,7741],"class_list":["post-5785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc-earth-lab","tag-bbc-earth-science","tag-biology","tag-chemistry","tag-earth-lab","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-space","tag-why","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785","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\/4155150516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}