{"id":3702,"date":"2017-08-09T06:47:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T06:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2021-02-17T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:44:11","slug":"a-nearly-infallible-history-of-the-reformation-by-nick-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/a-nearly-infallible-history-of-the-reformation-by-nick-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Nailed to the door"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>On the desk in front of me is a Playmobil\u00ae figure of Martin Luther. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an exact replica, I mean, apart from anything else, he hasn\u2019t got a nose. Anyway, the figure was released to mark \u2018500 years of Reformation\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s not easy to get into the Playmobil\u00ae Hall of Fame. As far as I can find out, the only other historical characters they have ever done are Cleopatra, Caesar and the Butterfly Fairy. But amazingly, the Luther figurine became Playmobil\u00ae\u2019s fastest-selling figure, ever, with some 34,000 of the tiny plastic toys selling out within 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad for a 500-year-old theologian.<\/p>\n<p>So what is this all about? Well, the little brochure accompanying the figure explains that it commemorates Luther\u2019s ninety-five theses nailed to the church door in Wittenberg.<\/p>\n<p>This event has been called \u201cthe hammer blow that launched the Reformation\u201d, and here\u2019s the story as it\u2019s commonly recounted. Catholic salesmen are making a killing selling indulgences \u2013 basically vo...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the desk in front of me is a Playmobil\u00ae figure of Martin Luther. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an exact replica, I mean, apart from anything else, he hasn\u2019t got a nose. Anyway, the figure was released to mark \u2018500 years of Reformation\u2019. Now, it\u2019s not easy to get into the Playmobil\u00ae Hall of Fame. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[179,182,819,820,821,822,823,824,825,826,827,828,829,830,831,832],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","tag-catholic","tag-god","tag-augustinian-friar","tag-benedictine-abbey","tag-caesar","tag-cleopatra","tag-ikea","tag-martin-luther","tag-monk","tag-monte-cassino","tag-nick-page","tag-playmobil","tag-pope-leo-x","tag-reformation","tag-theologian","tag-university-of-wittenberg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7500,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/7500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}