{"id":2613,"date":"2015-06-11T21:05:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T21:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2015-10-28T16:07:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:07:38","slug":"big-mask-with-little-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/big-mask-with-little-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Big mask with little snakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2614\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-792.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2614\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-792-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mexican decorative\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-792-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-792.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexican decorative<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Q:\u00a0 I cannot remember if I sent you the picture of this huge, Mexican (I think) mask. Attached is a photo with me. It has several holes on each side that could hold it to a man&#8217;s head.\u00a0 Jim, 792<\/p>\n<p>A:\u00a0 This &#8220;mask&#8221; is very big, as everyone can tell by looking at you trying to hold it. Frankly, I have never heard of Mexican&#8217;s wearing masks this large at a festival. And there are no eye holes. I think it might have been ordered by a shop keeper or restaurant owner who wanted to attract tourists with an attention-getting carving to hang on the wall.<!--more--> What appeals to me is the honest, folk art appearance. It does not look like a typical tourist mask.\u00a0 Maybe one of our Mexican mask enthusiasts will have a comment to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I cannot remember if I sent you the picture of this huge, Mexican (I think) mask. Attached is a photo with me. It has several holes on each side that could hold it to a man&#8217;s head.\u00a0 Jim, 792 A:\u00a0 This &#8220;mask&#8221; is very big, as everyone can tell by looking at you trying to hold it. Frankly, I have never heard of Mexican&#8217;s wearing masks this large at a festival. And there are no eye holes. I think it might have been ordered by a shop keeper or restaurant owner who wanted to attract tourists with an attention-getting carving to hang on the wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","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=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}