{"id":28781,"date":"2008-05-01T17:54:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T22:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=28781"},"modified":"2008-05-01T17:54:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T22:54:57","slug":"john-howes-journal-coyote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/05\/01\/28781-john-howes-journal-coyote\/","title":{"rendered":"John Howe&#8217;s Journal: COYOTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/logo_jhowe_home.jpg\" alt=\"John Howe Logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"87\" class=\"attachment wp-att-28519 alignright no-lazyload\" \/> <strong>Or Why It All Depends on How You Look at Things<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I was going to pursue that Flat Earth theme, but got distracted (again). I had a visit from a friend. My high-school buddy Harold stopped over on a trek through Europe, hot on the trail of Goethe. He told me a story from back west. Here it is. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the Beginning, Coyote was swimming. He wasn&#8217;t swimming for fun, he was dog-paddling energetically but very unhappily because the world was water. (Coyote is the Trickster, he is Loki and Reynard, Seth, Maui, Brer Rabbit and Saruman &#8211; the one who is always up to some mischief, the discordant note in the universe, the one who insists on playing his own tune. He is the transformer; when he dies, he always comes back to life. He is beyond good and evil.)<\/p>\n<p>Coyote called out to the ducks, who were paddling about nearby. &#8220;Ducks, he said, I&#8217;m sick of swimming, dive down and bring me up some mud in your beaks.&#8221; The first duck dived. It was gone an hour. It couldn&#8217;t find the bottom. A second duck dived &#8211; it was gone half a day before it finally came back up. Still no bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Coyote heard Loon laughing in the fog. Loon looked pretty scary, with his mad bright red eye shining in the mist, but Coyote called out anyway. &#8220;Loon, he said, I&#8217;m surely drowning, dive down and find bottom and bring me some mud.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/news\/more.php?id=222_0_1_0_C\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or Why It All Depends on How You Look at Things Last week, I was going to pursue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7ud","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}