{"id":576,"date":"2014-06-15T08:08:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoveriesoftheamericas.org\/?p=576"},"modified":"2014-06-15T08:08:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T13:08:53","slug":"viking-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/2014\/06\/15\/viking-navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Viking Navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-web\/lab-wpcontent\/sites\/134\/2014\/06\/23180943\/r-SUNSTONE-large570.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-577\" alt=\"r-SUNSTONE-large570\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-web\/lab-wpcontent\/sites\/134\/2014\/06\/23180943\/r-SUNSTONE-large570-300x125.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-web\/lab-wpcontent\/sites\/134\/2014\/06\/23180943\/r-SUNSTONE-large570-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-web\/lab-wpcontent\/sites\/134\/2014\/06\/23180943\/r-SUNSTONE-large570.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read here about the way that archeologists think that Vikings navigated without a compass on cloudy days. Used up through the 16th century!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title-news\"><a title=\"Sunstones\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/03\/06\/sunstone-british-shipwreck-viking-navigation_n_2818858.html\"> &#8216;Sunstone&#8217; Crystal From British Shipwreck May Be Vikings&#8217; Legendary Navigation Aid <\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read here about the way that archeologists think that Vikings navigated without a compass on cloudy days. Used up through the 16th century! &nbsp; &#8216;Sunstone&#8217; Crystal From British Shipwreck May Be Vikings&#8217; Legendary Navigation Aid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-tools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}