{"id":1082,"date":"2022-02-22T05:09:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T05:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2022-02-28T05:47:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T05:47:44","slug":"the-swastika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/the-swastika\/","title":{"rendered":"The swastika"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swastika-Hindu-Symbols.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swastika-Hindu-Symbols.webp 250w, https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swastika-Hindu-Symbols-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the swastika has a bad connotation in some parts of the world due to Nazi Germany, it is also a symbol of good fortune and luck. This cross variant has been used to signify honesty, truth, purity, and stability in Hinduism from ancient times. Its four angles or points also represent the four Vedas or directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the swastika has a bad connotation in some parts of the world due to Nazi Germany, it is also a symbol of good fortune and luck. This cross variant has been used to signify honesty, truth, purity, and stability in Hinduism from ancient times. Its four angles or points also represent the four Vedas &#8230; <a title=\"The swastika\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/the-swastika\/\" aria-label=\"More on The swastika\">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":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082"}],"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=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}