{"id":4354,"date":"2016-08-03T18:39:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T18:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2016-08-03T18:39:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T18:39:24","slug":"bad-guy-from-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/bad-guy-from-bali\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad guy from Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-1002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4355\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-1002-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-1002\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-1002-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-1002-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-1002-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-1002-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 All the art gallery told me when I bought it in 94 was that it was from Indonesia. I paid about $350 for it at that time. I know my melon of a head doesn&#8217;t fit in it, but a slightly smaller head would. Its made of wood, hand painted, with horse hair. That&#8217;s about all I know. It looks super cool, that&#8217;s for sure. It freaks most people out when they notice it on my wall. Chris, 1002<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 There are lots of masked characters in the Topeng saga, one of the famous dance dramas performed on the island of Bali. This is one of the bad guys. There are so many different characters that I find it difficult to remember all of them. Spend some time searching the internet and I think you&#8217;ll find him. One minor problem&#8230; your mask has been artificially aged, which makes it look older than it is&#8230; and reduces its value.\u00a0<strong> B-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 All the art gallery told me when I bought it in 94 was that it was from Indonesia. I paid about $350 for it at that time. I know my melon of a head doesn&#8217;t fit in it, but a slightly smaller head would. Its made of wood, hand painted, with horse hair. That&#8217;s about all I know. It looks super cool, that&#8217;s for sure. It freaks most people out when they notice it on my wall. Chris, 1002 A:\u00a0 There are lots of masked characters in the Topeng saga, one of the famous dance dramas performed on the island of Bali. This is one of the bad guys. There are so many different characters that I find it difficult to remember all of them. Spend some time searching the internet and I think you&#8217;ll find him. One minor problem&#8230; your mask has been artificially aged, which makes it look older than it is&#8230; and reduces its value.\u00a0 B-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bali-java"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","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=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}