{"id":214,"date":"2023-05-17T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/?page_id=214"},"modified":"2023-05-17T21:56:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T01:56:15","slug":"the-steersmans-offer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/a-viking-adventure\/story-ship-and-slaughter\/the-steersmans-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Steersman&#8217;s Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou\u2019re right. My brother must have been very brave for them to take him so young.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAye,\u201d the steersman agrees. \u201cYou know, boy, how old are you now?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be my fifteenth winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know your mother died and you got the sheep, but a boy like you could sure use some time away from here. Besides, you\u2019re taller than your brother even though you\u2019re still just a boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you just got back and we need to \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, boy, I know. It will be a while till we go out again, but when we do, will you join us? Think of all the things we usually bring back home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/a-viking-adventure\/story-ship-and-slaughter\/sailing-abroad\/\">say yes.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/a-viking-adventure\/story-ship-and-slaughter\/declining-the-offer\/\">say no.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou\u2019re right. My brother must have been very brave for them to take him so young.\u201d \u201cAye,\u201d the steersman agrees. \u201cYou know, boy, how old are you now? \u201cThis will be my fifteenth winter.\u201d \u201cI know your mother died and you got the sheep, but a boy like you could sure use some time away<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/a-viking-adventure\/story-ship-and-slaughter\/the-steersmans-offer\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4492,"featured_media":0,"parent":197,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-nosidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions\/261"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}