{"id":3775,"date":"2016-01-21T18:01:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T18:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:21:50","slug":"guacamaya-character-from-guatemala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/guacamaya-character-from-guatemala\/","title":{"rendered":"Guacamaya character from Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3776\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-897.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3776\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3776\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-897-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Big Bird\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-897-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-897-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-897-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-897-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Bird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> Here is a rare mask of the central figure in the Guacamaya dance in Guatemala.\u00a0 Jon, 897<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I love the look of this mask, even if it is a little rough. Here is what Jim Pieper has to say in his book <em>Guatemala&#8217;s Masks &amp; Drama<\/em>,\u00a0 &#8220;The Guacamaya is a very old dance, which is possibly pre-conquest, with little documentation. It tells the tale of a Mayan king who was turned into a parrot. This dance uses some of the largest carved masks in Mesoamerica. The dance is performed in May in Santa Cruz, Alta Verapaz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Here is a rare mask of the central figure in the Guacamaya dance in Guatemala.\u00a0 Jon, 897 A:\u00a0 I love the look of this mask, even if it is a little rough. Here is what Jim Pieper has to say in his book Guatemala&#8217;s Masks &amp; Drama,\u00a0 &#8220;The Guacamaya is a very old dance, which is possibly pre-conquest, with little documentation. It tells the tale of a Mayan king who was turned into a parrot. This dance uses some of the largest carved masks in Mesoamerica. The dance is performed in May in Santa Cruz, Alta Verapaz.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","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=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3779,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions\/3779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}