{"id":230,"date":"2023-05-17T10:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T14:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2023-07-06T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T13:57:52","slug":"declining-the-offer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/a-viking-adventure\/story-ship-and-slaughter\/declining-the-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Declining the Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know the steersman to be a wealthy man. He doesn\u2019t need you to join, especially now that you are the man of the house. If you were to follow him abroad, your sheep and your hut would have no one left to tend them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, sir, but I belong with my sheep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You walk away, clutching your mother\u2019s pendant in your hand, returning to your sheep and hut. The sky is so blue.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/a-viking-adventure\/story-ship-and-slaughter\/a-beginning\/\">Start over.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/a-viking-adventure\/thinking-through-the-sources\/\">Read on!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the steersman to be a wealthy man. He doesn\u2019t need you to join, especially now that you are the man of the house. If you were to follow him abroad, your sheep and your hut would have no one left to tend them. \u201cThank you, sir, but I belong with my sheep.\u201d You<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/a-viking-adventure\/story-ship-and-slaughter\/declining-the-offer\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4492,"featured_media":0,"parent":197,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-nosidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/makingvikings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/806"}],"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=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}