{"id":3203,"date":"2023-02-24T19:20:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2023-02-24T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:20:11","slug":"origin-of-the-sxoexoe-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/unknown\/origin-of-the-sxoexoe-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin Of The .Sxo&#8217;exo&#8217;e Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An old man is dying, and calls his people to his side. He gives a short, sturdy stick to each on his many offspring, wives, and relatives. &#8220;Break the stick,&#8221; he instructs them. With some effort, they all snap their sticks in half. &#8220;This is how it is when a soul is alone without anyone. They can be easily broken.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old man next gives each of his kin another stick, and says, &#8220;This is how I would like you to live after I pass. Put your sticks together in bundles of twos and threes. Now, break these bundles in half.&#8221; No one can break the sticks when there are two or more in a bundle. The old man smiles. &#8220;We are strong when we stand with another soul. When we are with another, we cannot be broken.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/unknown-nation\/\">Unknown Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old man is dying, and calls his people to his side. He gives a short, sturdy stick to each on his many offspring, wives, and relatives. &#8220;Break the stick,&#8221; he instructs them. With some effort, they all snap their sticks in half. &#8220;This is how it is when a soul is alone without anyone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,512],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unknown","category-unknown-stories","tag-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","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=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}