{"id":189,"date":"2007-11-29T07:08:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T12:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2007-11-29T07:08:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T12:08:16","slug":"down-by-the-sea-noahs-ark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/29\/down-by-the-sea-noahs-ark\/","title":{"rendered":"Down by the sea &ndash; Noah&#8217;s ark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is an apt description for the Netherlands. With its seafaring tradition and Protestant background, it is no surprise to me that a modern Noah&#8217;s ark was built here.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Dutch fellow has built a scale model of Noah&#8217;s ark, now on display in Schagen, the Netherlands, north of Amsterdam. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:12px;padding-top:7px;float:right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/BILDER\/2007-11-29.jpg\" title=\"Noah's ark\" alt=\"Noah's ark\" height=\"197\" width=\"275\" \/> It&#8217;s not a model you could put on your desk as a paperweight, either. With a length of 164 feet (50 meters), the Dutch ark is perhaps 40 percent of the size of the biblical ark. News reports called the Dutchman who built this ark a pious fellow. He may be that, but knowing the Dutch I don&#8217;t think he borrowed several hundred thousand euros to build the ark just to show it could be done. Instead, the ark houses a petting zoo for children and even a small restaurant. The enterprising owner plans to have his ark go on tour on the many canals in the Netherlands, so when it gets close to the German border I will be sure to visit it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is an apt description for the Netherlands. With its seafaring tradition and Protestant background, it is no surprise to me that a modern Noah&#8217;s ark was built here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}