{"id":11964,"date":"2012-06-28T00:09:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T07:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11964"},"modified":"2012-06-29T00:24:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T07:24:42","slug":"the-ewoks-were-named-after-the-native-american-tribe-miwok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/the-ewoks-were-named-after-the-native-american-tribe-miwok\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ewoks were Named after the Native American Tribe Miwok"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ewok-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11965\" title=\"ewok facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ewok-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ewok-facts.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ewok-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ewoks in Star Wars were named after the Native American tribe Miwok.\u00a0 The Miwok&#8217;s lived in the Redwood forest that is the setting for the Endor scenes on Return of the Jedi.<\/p>\n<p>It has also been suggested that Princess Leia&#8217;s bun hair style was also of Native American origin, based on the Hopi Indian &#8220;Squash Blossom&#8221; hair style that very strongly resembles Leia&#8217;s bun hair style.\u00a0 George Lucas denies this, stating the similarity is coincidental.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/the-person-who-did-the-voice-of-yoda-also-did-the-voice-of-miss-piggy-and-the-cookie-monster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ewoks in Star Wars were named after the Native American tribe Miwok.\u00a0 The Miwok&#8217;s lived in the Redwood forest that is the setting for the Endor scenes on Return of the Jedi. It has also been suggested that Princess Leia&#8217;s bun hair style was also of Native American origin, based on the Hopi Indian &#8220;Squash Blossom&#8221; hair style that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2807,917],"class_list":["post-11964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-ewok-facts","tag-star-wars-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11966,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964\/revisions\/11966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}