{"id":6035,"date":"2026-10-09T22:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-painting-that-captured-peace-between-america-and-the-british-bbc-world-service-shorts\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T22:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:10:03","slug":"the-painting-that-captured-peace-between-america-and-the-british-bbc-world-service-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-painting-that-captured-peace-between-america-and-the-british-bbc-world-service-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"The painting that captured peace between America and the British  &#8211; BBC World Service #shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VheBYPyVih8?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Proof of a really messy breakup!<\/p>\n<p>It all started 250 years ago,  in 1776, when the Americans told Britain they wanted to be an independent country. <\/p>\n<p>Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/bbc.in\/3VyyriM<\/p>\n<p>They went to war over it, and after 5 years the Americans won.<br \/>\nThis unfinished painting is meant to show the moment that American and British diplomats negotiated peace. <\/p>\n<p>Britain was so ashamed about losing the war, and their former colony, that the Brits refused to pose for the painting.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f The painting is The Treaty of Paris by Benjamin West and @lauragrb tells you the story behind it.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nThis is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel.<br \/>\nIf you like what we do, you can also find us here:<br \/>\nInstagram \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nTwitter \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nFacebook \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/facebook.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nBBC World Service website \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldserviceradio<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching and subscribing!<br \/>\n#BBCWorldService #WorldService #usa #independenceday #july4th<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VheBYPyVih8\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proof of a really messy breakup! It all started 250 years ago, in 1776, when the Americans told Britain they wanted to be an independent country. Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/bbc.in\/3VyyriM They went to war over it, and after 5 years the Americans won. This unfinished painting is meant to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150479,"featured_media":6036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4215,8845,11930,15,369,1361,1368,772,1367,4214,11929,11925,11926,11924,11927,11928,11922,11923,1366,328,1362,1363,11681,11921,1365,1364],"class_list":["post-6035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-american-history","tag-american-revolution","tag-american-revolution-oversimplified","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-documentary","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-docs","tag-documentaries","tag-explainers","tag-history-of-america","tag-history-of-the-us","tag-how-america","tag-how-america-was-founded","tag-how-did-the-us-became-a-country","tag-how-the-english","tag-how-the-english-colonized-america","tag-how-the-us-became-a-country","tag-how-the-us-became-the-us","tag-investigations","tag-podcast","tag-podcasts","tag-radio","tag-us-history","tag-us-history-crash-course","tag-world-service","tag-world-service-radio","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035","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\/4155150479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}