{"id":1370,"date":"2023-02-11T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2023-02-11T09:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T09:30:01","slug":"the-origin-of-death-gashowu-yokut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/yokut\/the-origin-of-death-gashowu-yokut\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin Of Death (Gashowu Yokut)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A person was dying. Then some people said: &#8220;Let it be that he lies outside for three days. Then he will get up and be a person again.&#8221; Now there was one newly married man, the meadow-lark. He did not like the dead person lying near his house because the body smelled. He said: &#8220;We will take the dead one away and burn him.&#8221; So the people were persuaded. They built a pile of wood, laid the body on it, and burned it. Thus the people of old times did, and so people die now and do not come back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/yokut-nation\/\">Yokut Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person was dying. Then some people said: &#8220;Let it be that he lies outside for three days. Then he will get up and be a person again.&#8221; Now there was one newly married man, the meadow-lark. He did not like the dead person lying near his house because the body smelled. He said: &#8220;We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[535,536],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yokut","category-yokut-stories","tag-yokut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","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=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}