{"id":1411,"date":"2013-11-03T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2015-10-19T17:27:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:27:31","slug":"something-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/something-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Something different"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1412\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-577.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1412\" alt=\"Carnival mask?\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-577.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-577.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-577-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carnival mask?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Bought this mask online several years ago. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s Swiss or Italian. The nose and chin were carved to appear &#8220;split&#8221; down the center. The wood is dense and smells like cedar.Teeth are plastic. No idea of age but it appears to be older. Any ideas as to origin?\u00a0 Dan<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I agree with you&#8211; it&#8217;s an unusual mask.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of large tropical nuts. Never seen anything like it. There are still a lot of wood mask carvers in Europe, especially in the Alpine areas. One of them might have carved it for a change of pace. Some of the carnivals inspire strange masks. Of course, that&#8217;s just a\u00a0 guess.\u00a0 <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Bought this mask online several years ago. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s Swiss or Italian. The nose and chin were carved to appear &#8220;split&#8221; down the center. The wood is dense and smells like cedar.Teeth are plastic. No idea of age but it appears to be older. Any ideas as to origin?\u00a0 Dan A: I agree with you&#8211; it&#8217;s an unusual mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","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=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3158,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/3158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}