{"id":218,"date":"2014-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2014\/05\/12\/post-211-martin-luther-statue-in-washington-dc\/"},"modified":"2014-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"post-211-martin-luther-statue-in-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/12\/post-211-martin-luther-statue-in-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-211: Martin Luther Statue in Washington D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"
The father of the Reformation, Martin Luther, in Washington, D.C.:\n<\/div>\n
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Taking his “Here I Stand” pose, as he so often does when appearing in statue form, Dr. Luther is memorializing his glory days. You know, the Diet of Worms; his dramatic refusal to recant; his death sentence and midnight escape.<\/p>\n

The statue is a replica of one which stands in Germany at Worms (pronounced “Verms”) according to Wikipedia<\/a>. (On Worms being pronounced “Verms”: I may have gone all through confirmation class, at a Lutheran church, unaware that using the wobbly English ‘W’ in that name was not quite right).
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This is very close to the heart of Downtown Washington D.C.

<\/span><\/span>Have a look at a map pinpointing Thomas Circle. The Luther Statue is adjacent to it, on the north side.\n<\/div>\n