{"id":703,"date":"2023-02-14T13:13:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T13:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-most-successful-pirate-in-history-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T13:13:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T13:13:38","slug":"the-most-successful-pirate-in-history-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-most-successful-pirate-in-history-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The most successful pirate in history \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hWVwYh8sU6k?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>If you were asked to picture the most successful pirate of all time, who would you imagine? Perhaps Long John Silver complete with a perching parrot, or a swashbuckling Blackbeard? Think again! It&#8217;s Zheng Yi Sao \u2013 a former sex worker turned Pirate Queen who terrorised the South China Sea in the 19th Century.<\/p>\n<p>Script by Emma Nagouse, University of Sheffield<br \/>\nBased on original research by Prof Ronald C. Po, The London School of Economics<br \/>\nAnimation by Peter Caires<br \/>\nNarration by Tessa Delaunay-Martin<\/p>\n<p>Find out more by downloading the You\u2019re Dead To Me podcast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hWVwYh8sU6k\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were asked to picture the most successful pirate of all time, who would you imagine? Perhaps Long John Silver complete with a perching parrot, or a swashbuckling Blackbeard? Think again! It&#8217;s Zheng Yi Sao \u2013 a former sex worker turned Pirate Queen who terrorised the South China Sea in the 19th Century. Script [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","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\/703","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}