{"id":924,"date":"2009-01-04T16:40:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T23:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=924"},"modified":"2019-11-15T07:27:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T14:27:44","slug":"girl-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/girl-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"girl groups &#8211; qaasgha jiina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collecting names of mythological female collectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>qaasgha jiina<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>His wife then joined him in the sea, where she gave birth to all the headwater women &#8211; those quintessential creatures known in Haida as <i>qaasgha jiina<\/i>. They are the spirit beings who draw the spawning salmon up the streams and so enable us to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Bringhurst, &#8220;The Humanity of Speaking,&#8221; in The Tree of Meaning<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As of today, a Google search on <i>qaasgha jiina<\/i> resulted in no hits. I am often very disappointed in the Internet. I am especially bummed when one of my searches turns up a JSTOR article, which I would love to read, but I&#8217;d have to pay for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collecting names of mythological female collectives: qaasgha jiina His wife then joined him in the sea, where she gave birth to all the headwater women &#8211; those quintessential creatures known in Haida as qaasgha&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9016,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/9016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}