{"id":5852,"date":"2026-09-04T20:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-truth-behind-the-legend-of-the-sword-in-the-stone-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T20:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:16:25","slug":"the-truth-behind-the-legend-of-the-sword-in-the-stone-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-truth-behind-the-legend-of-the-sword-in-the-stone-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth behind the legend of the &#8216;sword in the stone&#8217; \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0csfnR3V6lY?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>An Italian knight turned saint is said to have stabbed his sword into a rock in the 12th Century.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the sword can still be seen in Tuscany, but is it real? And was it the inspiration for Excalibur and King Arthur\u2019s saga?<\/p>\n<p>Video by: Next Stop Stories<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0csfnR3V6lY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Italian knight turned saint is said to have stabbed his sword into a rock in the 12th Century. Today, the sword can still be seen in Tuscany, but is it real? And was it the inspiration for Excalibur and King Arthur\u2019s saga? Video by: Next Stop Stories #bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":5853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-5852","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\/5852","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=5852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}