{"id":2535,"date":"2015-05-09T01:31:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T01:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2015-10-19T17:42:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:42:23","slug":"india-has-important-traditions-of-masquerade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/india-has-important-traditions-of-masquerade\/","title":{"rendered":"India has important traditions of masquerade"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2537\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-774.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2537\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-774-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"Durga mask\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-774-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-774.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Durga mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I thought you might enjoy seeing this Durga mask from West Bengal, India. It is15 inches tall and made of heavy papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9. Durga is considered a primary deity in Hinduism and one of the greatest goddesses. Durga Puja is the biggest festival in much of Northeast India. Made for a professional Chhau dancer, this perfect piece, with its carefully molded crown, has been made of a molded fiber and plaster material that is quite strong, and then painted. This is a feature photo in the new reference book, <em>Masks of the World<\/em>, by yours truly. It should be available in about a month.\u00a0 Bob, 774<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought you might enjoy seeing this Durga mask from West Bengal, India. It is15 inches tall and made of heavy papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9. Durga is considered a primary deity in Hinduism and one of the greatest goddesses. Durga Puja is the biggest festival in much of Northeast India. Made for a professional Chhau dancer, this perfect piece, with its carefully molded crown, has been made of a molded fiber and plaster material that is quite strong, and then painted. This is a feature photo in the new reference book, Masks of the World, by yours truly. It should be available in about a month.\u00a0 Bob, 774<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2535","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\/2535","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=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}