{"id":9446,"date":"2014-11-30T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=9446"},"modified":"2023-05-21T16:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:17:58","slug":"sunday-short-takes-159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/30\/sunday-short-takes-159\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Short Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/waxfigs-sm.jpg\"><br \/>\n<i>Wax figures of Henry VIII and his wives up for auction. Photo: BBC.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the lack of news round-ups this month, I&#8217;ve been trying to cram too much catch-up stuff into the weekends lately! So here&#8217;s several weeks&#8217; worth of stories that caught my eye:<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-wiltshire-30016793\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Madame Tussauds figures and five shops to be auctioned<\/a> &#8211; Anyone want to buy wax figures of Henry VIII *and* all the wives? If I had the money (and space to put them) I&#8217;d be tempted to buy them just get the costumes. I love that dress on the Anne Boleyn figure!<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-leicestershire-30216824\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard III reburial fundraising appeal starts<\/a> &#8211; <i>The diocese of Leicester said it had raised<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wax figures of Henry VIII and his wives up for auction. Photo: BBC. Sorry for the lack of news round-ups this month, I&#8217;ve been trying to cram too much catch-up stuff into the weekends lately! So here&#8217;s several weeks&#8217; worth of stories that caught my eye: * Madame Tussauds figures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/30\/sunday-short-takes-159\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-news","category-re-enactments-and-re-creations","category-shakespeare","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14718,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions\/14718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}