{"id":1108,"date":"2023-02-10T13:53:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2023-02-10T13:53:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:53:28","slug":"the-migration-of-the-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/cherokee\/the-migration-of-the-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Migration Of The Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the old times when the animals used to talk and hold councils, and the Grubworm and Woodchuck used to marry people, there was once a great famine of mast in the mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the animals and birds which lived upon it met together and sent the Pigeon out to the low country to see if any food could be found there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a time she came back and reported that she had found a country where the mast was &#8220;up to our ankles&#8221; on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So they got together and moved down into the low country in a great army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/cherokee-nation\/\">Cherokee Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the old times when the animals used to talk and hold councils, and the Grubworm and Woodchuck used to marry people, there was once a great famine of mast in the mountains. All the animals and birds which lived upon it met together and sent the Pigeon out to the low country to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,332],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherokee","category-cherokee-stories","tag-cherokee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}