{"id":3622,"date":"2015-12-09T19:05:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2015-12-09T19:10:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:10:29","slug":"mexican-masks-can-be-very-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/mexican-masks-can-be-very-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican masks can be very real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-869.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3623\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-869-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-869\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-869-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-869-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-869-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-869-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I just lost an auction for an awesome female Catrine mask.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a photo of it; the eyelids do not close.\u00a0 With commission, it sold for $1400.\u00a0 I had bid $1100 and lost, and I\u2019m very disappointed, as you can imagine.\u00a0 I really wanted that mask.\u00a0 Aaron, 869<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 You have my sympathy.\u00a0<!--more--> This is a rare example of top-notch mask making in Mexico. There are just two states, Tlaxcala and Chiapas, where a high level of classical sculpture is occasionally achieved. The female Catrine we see here would be worn by a Nahua man who impersonates a girl who falls in love with a handsome cowboy. Note how much personality this ultra-realistic mask portrays.\u00a0<strong> A+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I just lost an auction for an awesome female Catrine mask.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a photo of it; the eyelids do not close.\u00a0 With commission, it sold for $1400.\u00a0 I had bid $1100 and lost, and I\u2019m very disappointed, as you can imagine.\u00a0 I really wanted that mask.\u00a0 Aaron, 869 A:\u00a0 You have my sympathy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3622","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\/3622","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=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3624,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}