{"id":819,"date":"2023-04-11T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T12:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/how-a-secret-spy-ring-influenced-the-birth-of-the-us-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T12:56:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T12:56:16","slug":"how-a-secret-spy-ring-influenced-the-birth-of-the-us-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/how-a-secret-spy-ring-influenced-the-birth-of-the-us-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"How a secret spy ring influenced the birth of the US &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VF8fg58tW68?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>As one of America&#8217;s first &#8216;spy families&#8217;, the Culper Ring played an influential role in the American Revolution. Yet their identities remained a mystery for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Gathering information for George Washington, a group of seemingly ordinary citizens \u2013 a farmer, a whaleboat captain, a pub landlord and a merchant \u2013 not only helped turn the tide of the war, but also shaped the world of espionage we know today.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Maria Badia<br \/>\nAnimation by Dan John<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VF8fg58tW68\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of America&#8217;s first &#8216;spy families&#8217;, the Culper Ring played an influential role in the American Revolution. Yet their identities remained a mystery for centuries. Gathering information for George Washington, a group of seemingly ordinary citizens \u2013 a farmer, a whaleboat captain, a pub landlord and a merchant \u2013 not only helped turn the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secret-worlds","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\/819","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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}