{"id":1153,"date":"2022-02-22T05:18:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T05:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2022-02-28T06:39:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T06:39:34","slug":"the-celtic-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/the-celtic-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celtic Cross"},"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\/celtic-cross-Irish-Symbols.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/celtic-cross-Irish-Symbols.webp 250w, https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/celtic-cross-Irish-Symbols-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This sign is a spin-off of the Christian cross. The circle that circumnavigates the cross&#8217;s junction is typically thought to signify a merger of ancient and new ways of thinking. According to legend, St. Patrick blended the Christian cross with the pagan solar symbol. However, several historians claim that Irish monks employed stone Celtic crosses as early as the 7th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sign is a spin-off of the Christian cross. The circle that circumnavigates the cross&#8217;s junction is typically thought to signify a merger of ancient and new ways of thinking. According to legend, St. Patrick blended the Christian cross with the pagan solar symbol. However, several historians claim that Irish monks employed stone Celtic crosses &#8230; <a title=\"The Celtic Cross\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/the-celtic-cross\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Celtic Cross\">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":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"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=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}