{"id":781,"date":"2023-03-22T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/what-are-cults-and-why-do-people-join-them-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T23:48:08","slug":"what-are-cults-and-why-do-people-join-them-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/what-are-cults-and-why-do-people-join-them-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"What are cults and why do people join them? \u2013\u00a0BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/psXook7FyVQ?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Most cults don&#8217;t claim to be cults. In fact, many of the people involved may not even realise they are in one.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Tui McLean explores these mysterious groups through a psychological lens, examining what a cult actually is, and how some cults have been able to make ordinary people do unthinkable things.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Tui McLean<br \/>\nAnimation by Michal Bialozej<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=psXook7FyVQ\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most cults don&#8217;t claim to be cults. In fact, many of the people involved may not even realise they are in one. Journalist Tui McLean explores these mysterious groups through a psychological lens, examining what a cult actually is, and how some cults have been able to make ordinary people do unthinkable things. Video by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","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\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}