{"id":857,"date":"2023-05-12T13:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-500-year-old-mystery-of-christopher-columbus-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:31:14","slug":"the-500-year-old-mystery-of-christopher-columbus-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-500-year-old-mystery-of-christopher-columbus-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The 500-year-old mystery of Christopher Columbus &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Cao9ALAfTM?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>For centuries, Christopher Columbus has been celebrated as the brave explorer who &#8216;found&#8217; the New World. But, his treatment of indigenous communities has often been left out of the history books. As awareness grows, many of his statues are being torn down.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new DNA analysis might help researchers understand the origins and the early life of this increasingly controversial historical figure.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Fernando Teixeira &#038; Izabela Cardoso<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Cao9ALAfTM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For centuries, Christopher Columbus has been celebrated as the brave explorer who &#8216;found&#8217; the New World. But, his treatment of indigenous communities has often been left out of the history books. As awareness grows, many of his statues are being torn down. Now, a new DNA analysis might help researchers understand the origins and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-857","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\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}