{"id":244,"date":"2014-03-28T11:32:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T03:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sschinder.wordpress.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2018-12-19T12:49:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T04:49:10","slug":"an-octopus-with-a-nose-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"An Octopus with a Nose Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the idea of having a swastika part of a Kanak <a title=\"Of a Charm against Creatures from the Deep\" href=\"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/?p=214\">charm against creatures from the deep<\/a> seems strange to you, let me take you for a trip along the coast of Panama.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pa-tule2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-256 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pa-tule2.gif?w=300\" alt=\"pa-tule2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a>There, the Kuna indians live on a group of <a title=\"365 as sum of squares\" href=\"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/?p=211\">365<\/a> islands off the coast of Panama. They assumed autonomy in 1925. The flag design they adopted at that time incorporates a swastika. Later a variant of the original flag was introduced where a circle representing a nose ring was added.<\/p>\n<p>In Kuna tradition, kikir, which means octopus, is the name of the sacred symbol representing the birth of the world, the divine mother extending its tentacles&nbsp;in the four cardinal directions thus creating the rainbow, the sun, the moon and the stars.<\/p>\n<p>PS: I like the idea of being able to spend each day of the year on a different island and on&nbsp;leap year to have a rest&nbsp;on the mainland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the idea of having a swastika part of a Kanak charm against creatures from the deep seems strange to you, let me take you for a trip along the coast of Panama. There, the Kuna indians live on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/?p=244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarez.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}