{"id":190318,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/190318-menehune","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/190318","headline":"Menehune","content":"Menehune are a mythological race of Dwarf people,\r\nin Hawaiian tradition, who are said to live in the\r\ndeep forests and hidden valleys of the Hawaiian\r\nIslands, hidden and far away from human settlements.\r\nThey built temples, fishponds, roads and homes.\r\n\r\nHere is a story told to me by a gentleman from Lanai.\r\n\r\nWhen I was a young child, age 12, I was in the hills of\r\nLanai when I spotted something in a brush patch.\r\nI walked casually, forward to this patch and met a small\r\nMenehune, who I found was also 12 years old. I was of \r\nshort stature, about 3 feet tall and the Menehune, was shorter.\r\nI estimated he may have been 2 feet tall.\r\n \r\nWe talked for a while, then he said he had to go. I never saw him\r\nagain, until I was about 60 years old. Fate stepped in and\r\nI met him once more. He was still 2 feet tall and didn't appear\r\nto have aged. I recall my father saying, the Menehune, grew,\r\nat a slower rate than humans and didn't age like the rest of us.\r\n\r\nI am much older now, living at a retirement home in the Seattle area.\r\nI hope to return to Lanai to see if my Menehune friend will be at the\r\nsame place, I last saw him.","content_plain":"Menehune are a mythological race of Dwarf people,\r\nin Hawaiian tradition, who are said to live in the\r\ndeep forests and hidden valleys of the Hawaiian\r\nIslands, hidden and far away from human settlements.\r\nThey built temples, fishponds, roads and homes.\r\n\r\nHere is a story told to me by a gentleman from Lanai.\r\n\r\nWhen I was a young child, age 12, I was in the hills of\r\nLanai when I spotted something in a brush patch.\r\nI walked casually, forward to this patch and met a small\r\nMenehune, who I found was also 12 years old. I was of \r\nshort stature, about 3 feet tall and the Menehune, was shorter.\r\nI estimated he may have been 2 feet tall.\r\n \r\nWe talked for a while, then he said he had to go. I never saw him\r\nagain, until I was about 60 years old. Fate stepped in and\r\nI met him once more. He was still 2 feet tall and didn't appear\r\nto have aged. I recall my father saying, the Menehune, grew,\r\nat a slower rate than humans and didn't age like the rest of us.\r\n\r\nI am much older now, living at a retirement home in the Seattle area.\r\nI hope to return to Lanai to see if my Menehune friend will be at the\r\nsame place, I last saw him.","published_at":"2024-01-30T20:06:18-08:00","updated_at":"2024-01-31T14:30:52-08:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with MFish on Kudos365. View their post published Jan/30/2024 on Other. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"post","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","likes_count":13,"comments_count":3,"categories":[{"name":"Other","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/793-other"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/190318-menehune","headline":"Menehune","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"datePublished":"2024-01-30T20:06:18-08:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":13},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Other","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/793-other"}]}}