{"id":1283,"date":"2023-02-11T06:51:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T06:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2023-02-11T06:51:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T06:51:33","slug":"jack-rabbit-and-cottontail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/zuni\/jack-rabbit-and-cottontail\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack-Rabbit And Cottontail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anciently the Jack-rabbit lived in a sage plain, and the Cottontail rabbit lived in a cliff hard by. They saw the clouds gather, so they went out to sing. The long-legged Jack-rabbit sang for snow, thus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;U pi na wi sho, U pi na wi sho,<br>U kuk uku u kuk!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the short-legged Cottontail sang for rain, like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hatchi ethla ho na an saia.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That &#8216;s what they sung &#8211; one asking for snow, the other for rain; hence to this day the P\u00f3k&#8217;ia [Jack-rabbit] runs when it snows, the \u00c2&#8217;kshiko [Cottontail] when it rains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus shortens my story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/zuni-nation\/\">Zuni Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anciently the Jack-rabbit lived in a sage plain, and the Cottontail rabbit lived in a cliff hard by. They saw the clouds gather, so they went out to sing. The long-legged Jack-rabbit sang for snow, thus: &#8220;U pi na wi sho, U pi na wi sho,U kuk uku u kuk!&#8221; But the short-legged Cottontail sang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[541,542],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zuni","category-zuni-stories","tag-zuni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","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=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}