{"id":3031,"date":"2023-02-23T23:33:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T23:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2023-02-23T23:33:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T23:33:33","slug":"the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/pima\/the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once upon a time, when all the Earth was flooded, two birds were hanging above the water. They were clinging to the sky with their beaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The larger bird was gray with a long tail and beak, but the smaller one was the tiny bird that builds a nest shaped like an olla, with only a very small opening at the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The birds were tired and frightened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The larger one cried and cried, but the little bird held on tight and said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t cry. I &#8216;m littler than you are, but I &#8216;m very brave.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note from webmaster: I am not too sure if this is the full story. All versions I have seen on this story suggests that it is complete. But I am not convinced.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/pima-nation\/\">Pima Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, when all the Earth was flooded, two birds were hanging above the water. They were clinging to the sky with their beaks. The larger bird was gray with a long tail and beak, but the smaller one was the tiny bird that builds a nest shaped like an olla, with only [&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-3031","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\/3031","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=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}