{"id":1949,"date":"2014-07-21T15:10:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T15:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2015-10-19T17:35:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:35:41","slug":"believe-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/believe-it-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Believe it or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3163\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-663.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-663.jpg\" alt=\"Executioner\u2019s mask\" width=\"300\" height=\"405\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3163\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executioner\u2019s mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I just got back from the U.K., and there was an amazing medieval executioner\u2019s mask in the Tower of London, but it was black on a black background with glass in front and very low light, so I wasn\u2019t able to get a good photo (tripod would have been impossible because of the massive crowds of people). But someone got a relatively good shot of it and posted it, so here it is.\u00a0 Aaron, 663<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 The world of masquerade can be a wild and crazy place.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This painted metal mask from the Tower of London helps to confirm the fact that that any culture at any period in time can come up with very weird masks. I hope some of our readers will share their opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I just got back from the U.K., and there was an amazing medieval executioner\u2019s mask in the Tower of London, but it was black on a black background with glass in front and very low light, so I wasn\u2019t able to get a good photo (tripod would have been impossible because of the massive crowds of people). But someone got a relatively good shot of it and posted it, so here it is.\u00a0 Aaron, 663 A:\u00a0 The world of masquerade can be a wild and crazy place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","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\/1949","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=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}