{"id":724,"date":"2009-01-08T06:59:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T13:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2009-01-08T06:59:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T13:59:30","slug":"paternoster-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2009\/01\/08\/paternoster-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Paternoster Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This little word puzzle has been found in various Roman ruins, including in Pompeii:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">R O T A S<br \/>\nO P E R A<br \/>\nT E N E T<br \/>\nA R E P O<br \/>\nS A T O R<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rearrange the words, and you get this &#8220;Paternoster&#8221; (&#8220;Our Father&#8221;) cross form with &#8220;A&#8221; &#8212; alpha and &#8220;O&#8221; &#8212; omega at each tip:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A<br \/>\nP<br \/>\nA<br \/>\nT<br \/>\nE<br \/>\nR<br \/>\nA P A T E R N O S T E R O<br \/>\nO<br \/>\nS<br \/>\nT<br \/>\nE<br \/>\nR<br \/>\nO<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Apparently no one is sure of its purpose.\u00a0 The early Christian use of symbols like this is fascinating to me.\u00a0 I wish evangelicals weren&#8217;t so stingy with symbolism.\u00a0 I guess one similar thing we sometimes use is the Christian fish on our cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little word puzzle has been found in various Roman ruins, including in Pompeii: R O T A S O P E R A T E N E T A R E P O S A T O R Rearrange the words, and you get this &#8220;Paternoster&#8221; (&#8220;Our Father&#8221;) cross form with &#8220;A&#8221; &#8212; alpha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-christianity","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-bG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}