{"id":1227,"date":"2023-02-10T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2023-02-10T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:51:12","slug":"why-the-buzzards-head-is-bare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/cherokee\/why-the-buzzards-head-is-bare\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Buzzard&#8217;s Head Is Bare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The buzzard used to have a fine topknot, of which he was so proud that he refused to eat carrion, and while the other birds were pecking at the body of a deer or other animal which they had found he would strut around and say: &#8220;You may have it all, it is not good enough for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They resolved to punish him, and with the help of the buffalo carried out a plot by which the buzzard lost not his topknot alone, but nearly all the other feathers on his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He lost his pride at the same time, so that he is willing enough now to eat carrion for a living.<\/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>The buzzard used to have a fine topknot, of which he was so proud that he refused to eat carrion, and while the other birds were pecking at the body of a deer or other animal which they had found he would strut around and say: &#8220;You may have it all, it is not good [&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-1227","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\/1227","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=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}