{"id":3387,"date":"2010-02-07T11:33:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T06:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2010-02-07T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T06:03:56","slug":"the-last-living-head-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/the-last-living-head-hunters.html","title":{"rendered":"The Last Living Head Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esben Agersnap writes in his blog about the last living men who once practiced head hunting in Nagaland. An interesting story with a lot of pictures of headhunters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;tribes &#8211; which often waged war upon each other as well as on the more peaceful peoples of Assam. A peculiar aspect of Naga tribal warfare was the brutal and feared concept of head hunting. It was believed that by taking the head of your slain enemy as a trophy you would gain some of his power and spirit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/eagersnap.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/last-living-head-hunters.html\">the last living head hunters<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esben Agersnap writes in his blog about the last living men who once practiced head hunting in Nagaland. An interesting story with a lot of pictures of headhunters. &#8230;tribes &#8211; which often waged war upon each other as well as on the more peaceful peoples of Assam. A peculiar aspect of Naga tribal warfare was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[199,529,530],"class_list":["post-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nagaland","tag-north-east","tag-north-east-india"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-SD","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}