{"id":2003,"date":"2014-08-31T21:58:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T21:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2015-10-27T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T20:24:23","slug":"world-traveling-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/world-traveling-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"World traveling mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-676.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2004\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-676-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ecuador\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-676-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-676.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ecuador<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have a second mask if you would like to see it. I got them from my uncle some years ago. He got the 2 of them in Russia about 25 years ago, though I&#8217;m sure they are much older than that. I assume they are of Germanic origin but really don&#8217;t know. Any info you can provide would be great. Thanks.\u00a0 Josh, 676<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Foreign folk art often turns up thousands of miles from where it was made. <!--more-->Certainly nobody would expect to find an Ecuadorian mask in Russia. Who knows? Perhaps Russian tourists have a fondness for the Norther Andes. The Quechua-speaking Indians who live in the mountains have been selling their wooden dance masks to visitors for many years. This one has a nice folk art feel! What does the other one look like? They carve lots of different characters there.\u00a0 <strong>A-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I have a second mask if you would like to see it. I got them from my uncle some years ago. He got the 2 of them in Russia about 25 years ago, though I&#8217;m sure they are much older than that. I assume they are of Germanic origin but really don&#8217;t know. Any info you can provide would be great. Thanks.\u00a0 Josh, 676 A:\u00a0 Foreign folk art often turns up thousands of miles from where it was made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","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\/2003","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=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3395,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/3395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}