{"id":2104,"date":"2014-11-16T23:41:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T23:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:38:08","slug":"a-pefect-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/a-pefect-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2105\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2105\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-701-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mystery\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mystery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> I am a collector of Oceanic material and just bought this mask at a local auction. It is 21 inches long and seems to be old, but I really don&#8217;t know where it&#8217;s from. It&#8217;s full of decoration, mostly scorpions and birds.\u00a0 Niek, 701<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is a mystery for the Mask Man as well. <!--more-->Sure, it could be from somewhere in Oceania, but I wouldn&#8217;t rule out other areas of Asian, or even Africa. I hope you came to the right place. Maybe one of our visitors will recognize something familiar in your pictures and make a comment. It doesn&#8217;t look like a tourist souvenir. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Please help!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I am a collector of Oceanic material and just bought this mask at a local auction. It is 21 inches long and seems to be old, but I really don&#8217;t know where it&#8217;s from. It&#8217;s full of decoration, mostly scorpions and birds.\u00a0 Niek, 701 A:\u00a0 This is a mystery for the Mask Man as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","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\/2104","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=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}