{"id":2096,"date":"2014-11-13T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2015-11-08T20:28:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:28:28","slug":"real-mask-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/real-mask-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Real mask or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2097\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-699.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2097\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-699-158x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese bamboo art\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-699-158x300.jpg 158w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-699.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese bamboo art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I am super excited to have discovered your site. \u00a0I have collected masks since I visited Mexico in the summer of 1995. \u00a0My favourite mask is one I bought in Taxco in a store that was just filled with masks.\u00a0 I know you asked for just one to be submitted but I think the back of the other one is so interesting. It was purchased in an antique store in Honk Kong in 2000. I think I was told it was bamboo root. I don&#8217;t buy masks for their value, I really just collect what masks that I enjoy and like to look at.\u00a0 Lucy, 699<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 What I said about the previous mask (#698) could apply to the Mexican. <!--more-->Your bamboo root &#8220;mask&#8221; brings up the issue of what constitutes a true mask. The simplest answer is that it must have been made to be worn. So a real mask must fit over the face and allow the wearer to see. Obviously, your charming little China-man is something else. It could be a souvenir, a wall-hanging, or a piece of decorative art. At MasksoftheWorld.com we tend to avoid items that are not real masks. Of course, there is much mask-like art that will look great on your walls, but we feel the choice of real masks is large enough&#8230; and usually better.\u00a0 <strong>C<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I am super excited to have discovered your site. \u00a0I have collected masks since I visited Mexico in the summer of 1995. \u00a0My favourite mask is one I bought in Taxco in a store that was just filled with masks.\u00a0 I know you asked for just one to be submitted but I think the back of the other one is so interesting. It was purchased in an antique store in Honk Kong in 2000. I think I was told it was bamboo root. I don&#8217;t buy masks for their value, I really just collect what masks that I enjoy and like to look at.\u00a0 Lucy, 699 A:\u00a0 What I said about the previous mask (#698) could apply to the Mexican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","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=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}