{"id":691,"date":"2022-02-22T01:30:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=691"},"modified":"2022-02-25T01:52:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T01:52:44","slug":"donkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/donkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"227\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Donkey-political-symbol.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3225\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Stubbornness, joy, and humility are symbols of the Democratic Party in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Jackson was a Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1828. His opponents referred to him as a jackass. He embraced the term and included a picture of a donkey on his campaign posters to demonstrate his support. After he was elected, the donkey became a symbol for the Democratic Party. A political cartoonist named Nast popularized the donkey as a symbol for the Democratic Party in the 1800s, cementing its use as a symbol for the party from then on. Donkeys have long been associated with riches, tranquility, and happiness. The donkey was once employed as a form of payment. When Mary was pregnant with Jesus, a donkey bore her, and Jesus rode on a donkey to symbolize his humility, according to the Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stubbornness, joy, and humility are symbols of the Democratic Party in the United States. Andrew Jackson was a Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1828. His opponents referred to him as a jackass. He embraced the term and included a picture of a donkey on his campaign posters to demonstrate his support. &#8230; <a title=\"Donkey\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/donkey\/\" aria-label=\"More on Donkey\">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":[55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3226,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}