{"id":2996,"date":"2023-02-22T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2023-02-22T01:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T01:00:19","slug":"coyote-and-the-mesquite-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/pima\/coyote-and-the-mesquite-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote And The Mesquite Beans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After the waters of the flood had gone down, Elder Brother said to Coyote, &#8220;Do not touch that black bug; and do not eat the mesquite beans. It is dangerous to harm anything that came safe through the flood.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Coyote went on, but presently he came to the black bug. He stopped and ate it up. Then he went on to the mesquite beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stopped and looked at them a while, and then said, &#8220;I will just taste one and that will be all.&#8221; But he stood there and ate and ate until he had eaten them all up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the bug and the beans swelled up in his stomach and killed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/pima-nation\/\">Pima Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the waters of the flood had gone down, Elder Brother said to Coyote, &#8220;Do not touch that black bug; and do not eat the mesquite beans. It is dangerous to harm anything that came safe through the flood.&#8221; So Coyote went on, but presently he came to the black bug. He stopped and ate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,466],"tags":[280],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pima","category-pima-stories","tag-pima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","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=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}