{"id":1375,"date":"2023-02-11T09:32:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T09:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2023-02-11T09:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T09:32:35","slug":"the-origin-of-death-yauelmani-yokut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/yokut\/the-origin-of-death-yauelmani-yokut\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin Of Death (Yauelmani Yokut)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was Coyote who brought it about that people die. He made it thus because our hands are not closed like his. He wanted our hands to be like his, but&nbsp;<dfn title=\"a lizard\">kondjodji<\/dfn>, said to him: &#8220;No, they must have my hand.&#8221; He had five fingers and Coyote had only a fist. So now we have an open hand with five fingers. But then Coyote said: &#8220;Well, then they will have to die.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/yokut-nation\/\">Yokut Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Coyote who brought it about that people die. He made it thus because our hands are not closed like his. He wanted our hands to be like his, but&nbsp;kondjodji, said to him: &#8220;No, they must have my hand.&#8221; He had five fingers and Coyote had only a fist. So now we have an [&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-1375","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\/1375","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=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}