{"id":1758,"date":"2014-03-21T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2016-02-18T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:33:09","slug":"always-go-for-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/always-go-for-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Always go for quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1759\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-623.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1759\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-623.jpg\" alt=\"Who am I?\" width=\"300\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-623.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-623-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who am I?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: I just discovered this mask (have not bought it) and have no idea what it is.\u00a0 The seller doesn&#8217;t either.\u00a0 It bears some superficial resemblances to some forms of Bulgarian Kuker masks, but I&#8217;ve never seen one in leather like this.\u00a0 It might be an American folk mask for all I know.\u00a0 What do you think?\u00a0 Aaron, 623<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: I hope you buy it. It is the work of a talented artist, probably European. <!--more-->I wouldn&#8217;t rule out American either. The leather looks like it is a complete skin from a smaller animal. Very natural. Subtle use of color, hair and other details. Surely it was done by a master-craftsman. Please! Someone help us identify this excellent mask and take it from a <strong>B+<\/strong> to an <strong>A+<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I just discovered this mask (have not bought it) and have no idea what it is.\u00a0 The seller doesn&#8217;t either.\u00a0 It bears some superficial resemblances to some forms of Bulgarian Kuker masks, but I&#8217;ve never seen one in leather like this.\u00a0 It might be an American folk mask for all I know.\u00a0 What do you think?\u00a0 Aaron, 623 A: I hope you buy it. It is the work of a talented artist, probably European.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","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=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}