{"id":618,"date":"2023-01-21T06:53:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T06:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=618"},"modified":"2023-01-21T06:53:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T06:53:17","slug":"why-the-bat-hangs-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/apache\/why-the-bat-hangs-upside-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Bat Hangs Upside Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once, long ago, Coyote thought he would take a wife, but did not know whom to choose. &#8220;Why not take the wife of Hawk Chief?&#8221; Bat said, for Hawk Chief was missing, and had not been seen for many days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Hawk Chief returned and became angry with Bat for giving such ill-considered advice. He picked Bat up and slung him with full force into a juniper bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bat hung upside down in the bush, caught by his long, pointy-toed moccasins. He twisted and he turned, but however much he struggled, he could not get free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And from that time on bats hang upside down &#8211; even when they sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/apache-nation\/\">Apache Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once, long ago, Coyote thought he would take a wife, but did not know whom to choose. &#8220;Why not take the wife of Hawk Chief?&#8221; Bat said, for Hawk Chief was missing, and had not been seen for many days. But Hawk Chief returned and became angry with Bat for giving such ill-considered advice. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,175],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apache","category-apache-stories","tag-apache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","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=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}