{"id":12448,"date":"2011-10-06T19:54:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T01:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=12448"},"modified":"2018-07-18T20:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T02:30:04","slug":"4-aces-grill-albuquerque-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=12448","title":{"rendered":"4 Aces Grill – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span> 4 Aces Grill on Fourth Street<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a proud native New Mexican, my chest still swells with pride whenever I travel outside the Land of Enchantment (even to Texas, Arizona and Colorado) and espy a vehicle displaying the license plate of the great state of New Mexico.\u00a0 I’m not the only one.\u00a0 While stopping for gas in Iowa a few years ago, a couple from Roswell noticed our license plate and excitedly came over to find out where in New Mexico we were from.\u00a0 We wound up having lunch together, all the while discussing the great state in which we all live in.<\/span><\/p>\n

For citizens of the fruited plain not fortunate enough to live in New Mexico, seeing our state’s license plate within their borders evokes curiosity, especially if they’re attentive enough to notice that it reads “New Mexico U.S.A.”\u00a0 As the “One of Our Fifty is Missing<\/em>” column in New Mexico Magazine<\/a><\/em> has demonstrated for more than a quarter of a century, many of our fellow American citizens and ill-informed bureaucrats don\u2019t even realize that New Mexico is part of the United States.\u00a0 When the unwashed and uninformed masses aren’t wondering if we’re carrying our passports as we cross their borders, they’re\u00a0 curious about the symbolism depicted on the license plates and our flag.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span> One of the two dining rooms in the stylish 4 Aces Grill<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most New Mexicans are aware that our flag depicts the ancient sun symbol of the Zia (which translates literally as “people of the sun”) Pueblo Indians, but not everyone knows what the symbology represents.\u00a0 The Zia believed the giver of all good endowed them with gifts in groups of four.\u00a0 These gifts are represented on the Zia sun symbol as sixteen lines (or rays) radiating from the edge of a central circle representing the sun:
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