{"id":8016,"date":"2026-10-31T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8016"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:50:00","slug":"martin-luther-in-1517-nailed-his-95-theses-to-the-church-door-in-wittenburg-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8016","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther in 1517 Nailed his 95 Theses to the Church Door in Wittenburg, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Martin Luther in 1517 nailed his 95 Theses, also called the &#8220;Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of\u00a0Indulgences,&#8221; to the church door in Wittenburg, Germany<\/strong>. He was objecting to some of the policies and activities of the Catholic Church. His actions and the actions of others started the Protestant Reformation. Older children could read a transcription in English of his statements at: <a href=\"http:\/\/sourcebooks.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/luther95.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luther 95 Theses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther in 1517 nailed his 95 Theses, also called the &#8220;Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of\u00a0Indulgences,&#8221; to the church door in Wittenburg, Germany. He was objecting to some of the policies and activities of the Catholic Church. His actions and the actions of others started the Protestant Reformation. Older children could read a <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8016' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5984,3267,1138,3264,5983,3266,3265],"class_list":["post-8016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5984","tag-95-theses","tag-germany","tag-martin-luther","tag-october-31","tag-reformation","tag-wittenburg","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8016"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23868,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8016\/revisions\/23868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}