{"id":2298,"date":"2015-01-28T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2016-03-14T21:29:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T21:29:26","slug":"little-trio-of-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/little-trio-of-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Little trio of masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2299\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-734.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2299\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-734-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mexico, England, Italy\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-734-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-734.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexico, England, Italy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 In discussion with a friend, I took a picture of some of the masks on the wall. We were discussing the different origins of Carnival masks. \u00a0One looks like the Guy Fawkes mask&#8230; I think the other a Venice mask?\u00a0 I came across your site, as we were trying to research. I unfortunately do not have detailed and separate photos. I know they are for fun and decorations, but if you could help identify where these masks are from, I would be very grateful. If not, I understand.\u00a0 Ruhi, 734<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Seeing your photo of three store-bought plastic masks intrigued me. <!--more-->One is the famous Guy Fawkes masks (UK), another is a Venice-style carnival mask, and the third would be a Mexican Day-of-the-Dead mask. Of course, these cheap little items were probably all made in China. (What isn&#8217;t?) The three make for an interesting group. I would love to know what you and your friend discussed. And why did you photograph them in black &amp; white?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 In discussion with a friend, I took a picture of some of the masks on the wall. We were discussing the different origins of Carnival masks. \u00a0One looks like the Guy Fawkes mask&#8230; I think the other a Venice mask?\u00a0 I came across your site, as we were trying to research. I unfortunately do not have detailed and separate photos. I know they are for fun and decorations, but if you could help identify where these masks are from, I would be very grateful. If not, I understand.\u00a0 Ruhi, 734 A:\u00a0 Seeing your photo of three store-bought plastic masks intrigued me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","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=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}