{"id":1333,"date":"2023-02-11T07:32:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T07:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2023-02-11T07:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T07:32:56","slug":"the-foxes-and-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/yurok\/the-foxes-and-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foxes And The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once upon a time, the Foxes were angry with Sun. They held a council about the matter. Then twelve Foxes were selected &#8211; twelve of the bravest to catch Sun and tie him down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They made ropes of sinew; then the twelve watched until the Sun, as he followed the downward trail in the sky, touched the top of a certain hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the Foxes caught Sun, and tied him fast to the hill. But the Indians saw them, and they killed the Foxes with arrows. Then they cut the sinews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Sun had burned a great hole in the ground. The Indians know the story is true, because they can see the hole which Sun burned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/yurok-nation\/\">Yurok Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, the Foxes were angry with Sun. They held a council about the matter. Then twelve Foxes were selected &#8211; twelve of the bravest to catch Sun and tie him down. They made ropes of sinew; then the twelve watched until the Sun, as he followed the downward trail in the sky, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[539,540],"tags":[317],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yurok","category-yurok-stories","tag-yurok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","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=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}