{"id":1006,"date":"2022-02-22T02:47:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T02:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2022-02-28T01:56:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T01:56:36","slug":"obelisks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/obelisks\/","title":{"rendered":"Obelisks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/graveyard-obelisk-Graveyard-Symbols.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3656\" width=\"192\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/graveyard-obelisk-Graveyard-Symbols.webp 768w, https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/graveyard-obelisk-Graveyard-Symbols-275x300.webp 275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ra&#8217;s symbol, royalty, and connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many graveyards, including those from Ancient Egypt, have obelisks. Obelisks were the sun god Ra&#8217;s solidified rays. They symbolized the Sun God&#8217;s residence. As a symbol of royalty, persons in eighteenth-century England desired to be buried with an obelisk on their grave. The obelisk later came to symbolize a link between heaven and earth, as well as the living and the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ra&#8217;s symbol, royalty, and connection. Many graveyards, including those from Ancient Egypt, have obelisks. Obelisks were the sun god Ra&#8217;s solidified rays. They symbolized the Sun God&#8217;s residence. As a symbol of royalty, persons in eighteenth-century England desired to be buried with an obelisk on their grave. The obelisk later came to symbolize a link &#8230; <a title=\"Obelisks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/obelisks\/\" aria-label=\"More on Obelisks\">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":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006"}],"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=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}