{"id":10083,"date":"2020-12-06T18:20:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T18:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=10083"},"modified":"2020-12-06T18:20:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T18:20:03","slug":"red-moor-mask-e-central-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/red-moor-mask-e-central-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Moor mask, E. Central Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hidalgo1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10084\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hidalgo1-1-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hidalgo1-1-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hidalgo1-1.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a>Though faded and dirty, this colorful red Moor mask is a classic. It could be over a 100 years old, or a very well made replica.\u00a0 Moor masks can also be painted gray, brown or black. The Dance of the Moors and Christians is an important celebration in the states of Veracruz, Hidalgo, Talaxcala and Puebla. The dance arose from the teachings of missionaries as part of an effort to instill respect for and fear of the Spaniards in the indigenous peoples, and to convince them that the victory of Christianity over other faiths\u2014by violence whenever necessary\u2014was inevitable.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hidalgo2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10085\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hidalgo2-1-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hidalgo2-1-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hidalgo2-1.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hidalgo3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10086\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hidalgo3-1-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hidalgo3-1-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hidalgo3-1.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though faded and dirty, this colorful red Moor mask is a classic. It could be over a 100 years old, or a very well made replica.\u00a0 Moor masks can also be painted gray, brown or black. The Dance of the Moors and Christians is an important celebration in the states of Veracruz, Hidalgo, Talaxcala and Puebla. The dance arose from the teachings of missionaries as part of an effort to instill respect for and fear of the Spaniards in the indigenous peoples, and to convince them that the victory of Christianity over other faiths\u2014by violence whenever necessary\u2014was inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10087,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083\/revisions\/10087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}