{"id":2080,"date":"2014-10-30T14:19:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T14:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2015-10-28T19:22:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:22:22","slug":"realistic-looking-decorative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/realistic-looking-decorative\/","title":{"rendered":"Realistic looking decorative"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2081\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-695.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2081\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-695-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"character mask\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">character mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I found this mask at an estate sale in my neighborhood and was told it was Balinese but I am now wondering if it could be Mexican as I know there are traditions of Mexican ceremonies in which participants wear masks caved like old men. The mask has attached hair which feels like horse or ox hair. I would appreciate any additional knowledge you may have.\u00a0 Jack, 695<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Jack, you&#8217;re on the right track.<!--more--> It is a pretty typical Mexican mask meant to represent any number of characters including that of an old man (el viejo). It would be nice if I could tell you it was used in a village dance, but it was made for sale to tourists. Those rough edges were added to make it look old. No matter&#8211; it still looks good on the wall.\u00a0 <strong>C<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I found this mask at an estate sale in my neighborhood and was told it was Balinese but I am now wondering if it could be Mexican as I know there are traditions of Mexican ceremonies in which participants wear masks caved like old men. The mask has attached hair which feels like horse or ox hair. I would appreciate any additional knowledge you may have.\u00a0 Jack, 695 A:\u00a0 Jack, you&#8217;re on the right track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","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\/2080","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=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}