{"id":18730,"date":"2017-11-05T01:44:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T05:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=18730"},"modified":"2017-10-22T15:47:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T19:47:49","slug":"ne-plus-ultra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2017\/11\/05\/ne-plus-ultra\/","title":{"rendered":"Ne Plus Ultra"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>There was a point in time when the Spanish flag had the motto\u2013 Ne Plus Ultra i.e. there is nothing of importance beyond our realm.  That is until Christophoro Columbo sailed the ocean blue to the West Indies, and they had to change the motto to \u2018Plus Ultra\u2019  There is more beyond.  Yet, somehow we have lots of Christians who seem to be rather like the fish in this cartoon\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/10\/fishbowl-2_1_orig.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18731\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2017\/10\/fishbowl-2_1_orig.jpg\" alt=\"fishbowl-2_1_orig\" width=\"621\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18731\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a point in time when the Spanish flag had the motto\u2013 Ne Plus Ultra i.e. there is nothing of importance beyond our realm. 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