{"id":762189,"date":"2023-08-03T11:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=762189"},"modified":"2023-08-03T11:40:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:40:01","slug":"shared-horse-and-human-burials-show-how-deeply-the-vikings-cared-for-their-animal-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=762189","title":{"rendered":"Shared horse and human burials show how deeply the vikings cared for their animal companions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is your pet part of the family? That&#8217;s nothing new. Archaeological evidence exists to suggest that the vikings held their own animals in high\u2014even intimate\u2014regard, taking them with them on voyages. Earlier this year, scientific evidence found for the first time that\u2014as early as the ninth century\u2014vikings brought horses, dogs and other animals with them across the North Sea.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-08-horse-human-burials-deeply-vikings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shared horse and human burials show how deeply the vikings cared for their animal companions<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your pet part of the family? That&#8217;s nothing new. Archaeological evidence exists to suggest that the vikings held their own animals in high\u2014even intimate\u2014regard, taking them with them on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}