{"id":139,"date":"2020-06-08T18:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/?p=139"},"modified":"2020-06-10T16:46:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:46:24","slug":"the-navajo-and-the-animal-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"THE NAVAJO AND THE ANIMAL PEOPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/thenavajoandanimalpeople.jpg?resize=500%2C625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/thenavajoandanimalpeople.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/thenavajoandanimalpeople.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday we had an outdoors memorial for my friend who passed away, during which a hawk flew overhead. One friend got very excited, saying predatory birds are a good sign according to Navajo custom. I later looked it up and found hawks symbolize a connection to the spirit world. I\u2019ve become interested in Native American religions and their respect toward animals, so when I was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/heard.org\/\">Heard Museum<\/a> last night for a member event, I bought this book, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6610\/9781938486647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Navajo and the Animal People<\/a>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/pavlik\/about\/\">Steve Pavlik<\/a>. See the hawk in the bottom right corner of the cover \ud83d\ude42 I will always remember my friend whenever I see one of these beautiful birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had an outdoors memorial for my friend who passed away, during which a hawk flew overhead. One friend got very excited, saying predatory birds are a good sign according to Navajo custom. I later looked it up and found hawks symbolize a connection to the spirit world.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[62,61],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-nonfiction","tag-steve-pavlik","tag-the-navajo-and-the-animal-people"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/thenavajoandanimalpeople.jpg?fit=500%2C625&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}