{"id":1895,"date":"2014-06-16T16:15:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2015-10-28T19:32:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:32:45","slug":"mexican-decoratives-can-fool-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/mexican-decoratives-can-fool-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican decoratives can fool you"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1896\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1896\" alt=\"tourist mask\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-650.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-650.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-650-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">tourist mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> A friend of mine purchased this mask for me at a flea market. I believe it&#8217;s a Balinese mask but I have no idea what kind or what it represents or would be used for. I would like to find out this information if possible. Can you help?\u00a0 Jack, 650<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> You have a double-faced Mexican tourist mask probably made in Guerrero. <!--more-->These carvers often try out new ideas. This time it was big ears and eyes\u00a0somewhat like\u00a0a Balinese mask. That\u2019s why you were fooled.<\/p>\n<div>Check out the decorative section at the end of our Mexico page for more interesting examples\u00a0from these\u00a0same carvers. They work quickly and are often sloppy, but the results are sometimes very artistic.\u00a0 <strong>D<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 A friend of mine purchased this mask for me at a flea market. I believe it&#8217;s a Balinese mask but I have no idea what kind or what it represents or would be used for. I would like to find out this information if possible. Can you help?\u00a0 Jack, 650 A: You have a double-faced Mexican tourist mask probably made in Guerrero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","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\/1895","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=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}