{"id":1706,"date":"2022-02-22T07:24:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T07:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2022-03-01T08:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:04:32","slug":"easter-basket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/easter-basket\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Basket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Symbol of wealth, womb, and fertility.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/easter-basket-Easter-Symbols.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4495\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/easter-basket-Easter-Symbols.webp 768w, https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/easter-basket-Easter-Symbols-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On Easter Sunday, children are given Easter baskets. They&#8217;re chock-full of candy and fun toys for the kids to enjoy. The Easter Bunny delivers the Easter gifts to the kids. Today, Easter baskets represent prosperity and luxury. The larger the Easter basket, the more prosperous you are. When worshiping Ostara, baskets were used. In the spring, ancient Germanic tribes would place seedlings in baskets and bring them to the temple to be blessed by the goddess Ostara. Ostara carried a basket of eggs to symbolize the womb and to stimulate fertility. Baskets were also utilized to transport food to festivities in ancient civilizations. On Easter Sunday, medieval Catholics would bring food baskets to church to be blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symbol of wealth, womb, and fertility. On Easter Sunday, children are given Easter baskets. They&#8217;re chock-full of candy and fun toys for the kids to enjoy. The Easter Bunny delivers the Easter gifts to the kids. Today, Easter baskets represent prosperity and luxury. The larger the Easter basket, the more prosperous you are. When worshiping &#8230; <a title=\"Easter Basket\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/easter-basket\/\" aria-label=\"More on Easter Basket\">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":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706"}],"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=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}