{"id":2495,"date":"2015-04-17T00:21:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T00:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2016-02-18T18:55:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:55:11","slug":"traditional-sri-lankan-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/traditional-sri-lankan-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Sri Lankan mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2496\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-766.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2496\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-766-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"character unknown\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-766-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-766.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">character unknown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Here is another mask I just acquired. Any ideas on where it is from.\u00a0 Jim, 766<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 It&#8217;s from the island nation of Sri Lanka, just off the southern tip of India. They still have a tradition of masquerade there that is alive and well. If you go to the Indian &amp; Himalayas section of my website you can see and read about several of these character masks.<a href=\"%20https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/masks\/himalayas\/\"> https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/masks\/himalayas\/<\/a>\u00a0 <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Here is another mask I just acquired. Any ideas on where it is from.\u00a0 Jim, 766 A:\u00a0 It&#8217;s from the island nation of Sri Lanka, just off the southern tip of India. They still have a tradition of masquerade there that is alive and well. If you go to the Indian &amp; Himalayas section of my website you can see and read about several of these character masks. https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/masks\/himalayas\/\u00a0 B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-himalayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","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=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}