{"id":5414,"date":"2015-10-30T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2015-10-30T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T16:02:48","slug":"the-tree-of-war-page-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/5414\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tree of War Page 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Peacemaker faces a lethal test put forward by the Kahne&#8217;ak\u00e9 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/pages\/ch11\/v5.php\">Page 5 <\/a>of <em>The Peacemaker and the Tree of War<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While reading several versions of the Haundenosaunee legend that inspired this vignette, I was wondering why they gave a suicidal test. And I think the answer is to show bravery in the face of death. The people followed\u00a0several\u00a0customs \u00a0in this era where courage\u00a0was valued more than life. Courage in the face of danger\u00a0was\u00a0widely respected even if the cause was hopeless and death the inevitable end. So the sachem at this point in the story is saying &#8220;Put up, or shut up.&#8221; The Peacemaker chose to Put Up when everyone expected him to Shut Up. This wins him a lot of integrity points and allows him to take control of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Next weekend, Steph and I will be at one of my favorite conventions of the year &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nekocon.com\">Nekocon<\/a>! I do so love this convention. It&#8217;s the perfect size, easy to get to, and the attendees are fantastic. We&#8217;ll be bringing the recently released Volume 2 books as well as the Volume 1 chapter books. Come see us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peacemaker faces a lethal test put forward by the Kahne&#8217;ak\u00e9 on Page 5 of The Peacemaker and the Tree of War. While reading several versions of the Haundenosaunee legend that inspired this vignette, I was wondering why they gave a suicidal test. And I think the answer is to show bravery in the face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-new-page","category-vignette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5417,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}