{"id":1398,"date":"2023-02-11T09:47:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T09:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2023-02-11T09:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T09:47:43","slug":"the-lizard-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/yokut\/the-lizard-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lizard-Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was Coyote who brought it about that people die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made it thus because our hands are not closed like his. He wanted our hands to be like his, but a lizard said to him: &#8220;No, they must have my hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had five fingers and Coyote had only a fist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now we have an open hand with five fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then Coyote said: &#8220;Well, then they will have to die.&#8221;<\/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>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 a lizard said to him: &#8220;No, they must have my hand.&#8221; He had five fingers and Coyote had only a fist. So now 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-1398","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\/1398","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=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}