{"id":2845,"date":"2015-08-30T20:47:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T20:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2015-10-19T01:13:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T01:13:19","slug":"revealing-the-trauma-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/revealing-the-trauma-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealing the Trauma of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2846\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-825.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2846\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-825-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"therapy mask\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-825-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-825.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">therapy mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Brain injuries caused by blast events change soldiers in ways many can\u2019t articulate. Some use art therapy, creating painted masks to express how they feel. Brain trauma from blast force is the signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, afflicting hundreds of thousands of U.S. combat personnel. Although unseen, the damage strikes deeply into a soldier\u2019s mind and psyche.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is how a recent article in National Geographic begins. It has lots of pictures of masks made by the recovering soldiers. You can see the whole article by going to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/healing-soldiers\/\"> http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/healing-soldiers\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Brain injuries caused by blast events change soldiers in ways many can\u2019t articulate. Some use art therapy, creating painted masks to express how they feel. Brain trauma from blast force is the signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, afflicting hundreds of thousands of U.S. combat personnel. Although unseen, the damage strikes deeply into a soldier\u2019s mind and psyche.&#8221; This is how a recent article in National Geographic begins. It has lots of pictures of masks made by the recovering soldiers. You can see the whole article by going to http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/healing-soldiers\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","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\/2845","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}