{"id":3588,"date":"2023-03-01T11:52:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T11:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2023-03-01T11:52:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T11:52:50","slug":"the-story-of-the-quarrel-of-the-sun-and-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/sioux\/the-story-of-the-quarrel-of-the-sun-and-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Of The Quarrel Of The Sun And Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the days of the first Grandfather, the Moon and Sun lived upon the Earth. Then they quarreled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Said the Moon: &#8220;I am out of patience with you. I gather the people, but you scatter them. You cause them to be lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Said the Sun: &#8220;I wish for many people to grow, so I scatter them. You put them in darkness; thus you kill many with hunger.&#8221; The Sun called to the people. &#8220;Ho! Ye who are people. Many of you shall grow strong. I will look down on you from above. I will rule all your work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Said Moon, &#8220;And I, too, will dwell above you. I will gather you when it is dark. Assembling in full numbers, you shall sleep. I myself will rule all your work. We will walk in the trail, one after the other, I will walk behind you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/sioux-nation\/\">Sioux Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days of the first Grandfather, the Moon and Sun lived upon the Earth. Then they quarreled. Said the Moon: &#8220;I am out of patience with you. I gather the people, but you scatter them. You cause them to be lost.&#8221; Said the Sun: &#8220;I wish for many people to grow, so I scatter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[485,486],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sioux","category-sioux-stories","tag-sioux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","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=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}