{"id":4247,"date":"2016-06-04T17:43:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2016-06-04T17:43:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T17:43:05","slug":"mexican-creativity-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/mexican-creativity-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican creativity continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-980.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4248\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-980-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-980\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-980-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-980-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-980-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-980-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Aside from the very excellent Mexican masks I have bought from you recently, I have made several other purchases.\u00a0 Attached are photos of seven of them, all Mexican.\u00a0 I am keeping the Cora mask and the Guerrero tigres 3 and 4 for my collection.\u00a0The others will be sold.\u00a0 Aaron, 980<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Cora masks are representative of ancestors and used in a Holy Week ceremony of boys entering adulthood. Called Judios, the dancers paint their bodies and wear papier mache\u00a0masks that all look much different from each other. At the end of the ceremony the masks are destroyed. That is why we don&#8217;t often see these wildly creative masks on the market. Aaron is great at finding the choicest masks wherever they might be.\u00a0 <strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Aside from the very excellent Mexican masks I have bought from you recently, I have made several other purchases.\u00a0 Attached are photos of seven of them, all Mexican.\u00a0 I am keeping the Cora mask and the Guerrero tigres 3 and 4 for my collection.\u00a0The others will be sold.\u00a0 Aaron, 980 A:\u00a0 Cora masks are representative of ancestors and used in a Holy Week ceremony of boys entering adulthood. Called Judios, the dancers paint their bodies and wear papier mache\u00a0masks that all look much different from each other. At the end of the ceremony the masks are destroyed. That is why we don&#8217;t often see these wildly creative masks on the market. Aaron is great at finding the choicest masks wherever they might be.\u00a0 A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4247","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\/4247","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=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4249,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/4249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}