{"id":3860,"date":"2016-02-11T21:25:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T21:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2016-02-13T22:08:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T22:08:34","slug":"the-balaclava-can-be-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/the-balaclava-can-be-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"The balaclava can be scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-911.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3861\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3861\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-911-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-911\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-911-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-911-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-911-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-911-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Though this website deals mostly with ethnographic masks from cultures all over the world, we occasionally see masks used for protection and other purposes. A few people, like yours truly, enjoy collecting them as well. In our new book, <em>Masks from Around the World<\/em>, chapter 13 is called &#8220;Protection &amp; Protest&#8221; and the next one is &#8220;Steampunk &amp; Sex.&#8221; This mask is on page 173 with the following description.<\/p>\n<p>958 Balaclava<br \/>\nThe 3-holed black balaclava was designed as full<br \/>\ncold-weather protection for the head. During the<br \/>\nCrimean War in 1854 handmade balaclavas were sent<br \/>\nover to the British troops to help protect them from<br \/>\nthe winter weather. Today they are especially popular<br \/>\nwith criminals, revolutionaries and terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>This February we&#8217;ve had some very cold days here in Lancaster, PA.\u00a0 : )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though this website deals mostly with ethnographic masks from cultures all over the world, we occasionally see masks used for protection and other purposes. A few people, like yours truly, enjoy collecting them as well. In our new book, Masks from Around the World, chapter 13 is called &#8220;Protection &amp; Protest&#8221; and the next one is &#8220;Steampunk &amp; Sex.&#8221; This mask is on page 173 with the following description. 958 Balaclava The 3-holed black balaclava was designed as full cold-weather protection for the head. During the Crimean War in 1854 handmade balaclavas were sent over to the British troops to help protect them from the winter weather. Today they are especially popular with criminals, revolutionaries and terrorists. This February we&#8217;ve had some very cold days here in Lancaster, PA.\u00a0 : )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","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=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3865,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/3865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}