{"id":100,"date":"2022-02-18T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T14:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=100"},"modified":"2022-02-24T00:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T00:32:43","slug":"ka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/ka\/","title":{"rendered":"Ka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"271\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ka-Egyptian-symbol.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2620\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The word ka means &#8220;soul&#8221; or &#8220;spirit&#8221; in English. When a person is born, he or she becomes the ka. The ram-headed god Khnum was said to have created the ka on his potter&#8217;s wheel at the time of a person&#8217;s birth. When someone died, it was assumed that they &#8220;met their ka.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a person&#8217;s body died, their soul would live on. Because the ka needed a somewhere to reside, some tombs incorporated model houses. Food and drink offerings would be left at the tomb door for the ka to eat and drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word ka means &#8220;soul&#8221; or &#8220;spirit&#8221; in English. When a person is born, he or she becomes the ka. The ram-headed god Khnum was said to have created the ka on his potter&#8217;s wheel at the time of a person&#8217;s birth. When someone died, it was assumed that they &#8220;met their ka.&#8221; After a &#8230; <a title=\"Ka\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/ka\/\" aria-label=\"More on Ka\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}