{"id":2946,"date":"2015-09-28T00:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T00:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2015-10-18T23:42:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:42:28","slug":"devil-or-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/devil-or-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil or bird?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2947\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-844.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2947\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-844-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"decorative\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-844-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-844.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">decorative<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: This mask weighs only five ounces. It is around 10-11&#8243; tall and 7&#8243; across the forehead. I acquired it from a long time antique collector\/hoarder in Central Alabama. Any assistance you could provide in identification would be most helpful. Kathy, 844<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> From somewhere in Mexico, this strange little guy is quite a character. Unfortunately, it has never been painted. Mexicans like to finish their masks with bright colors. However, they occasionally leave them unpainted for the tourist trade.<!--more--> Some Americans and Europeans prefer the natural wood finish. There are a few villages in the Yucatan Peninsula that don&#8217;t paint the masks they dance in, but this is quite unusual for the rest of Mexico. <strong>C<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: This mask weighs only five ounces. It is around 10-11&#8243; tall and 7&#8243; across the forehead. I acquired it from a long time antique collector\/hoarder in Central Alabama. Any assistance you could provide in identification would be most helpful. Kathy, 844 A: From somewhere in Mexico, this strange little guy is quite a character. Unfortunately, it has never been painted. Mexicans like to finish their masks with bright colors. However, they occasionally leave them unpainted for the tourist trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","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\/2946","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=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}