{"id":5506,"date":"2017-07-26T18:05:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T18:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2017-07-29T14:22:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T14:22:03","slug":"petruk-from-east-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/petruk-from-east-java\/","title":{"rendered":"Petruk from East Java"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5507\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193a-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Missed the boat on buying this one about a year ago. The craftsmanship utilizes high detail in many areas, and its clearly been danced.\u00a0 Nate, 1193<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 This character, known as Petruk, is easy to recognize by his long nose. Sorry you didn&#8217;t get it. The carving is fabulous. As you know, masks of Java and Bali and other parts of Indonesia are inspired\u00a0by Indian influences which were originally used to\u00a0propagate religious principles and dramas from the Hindu epics such as the\u00a0Ramayana or Mahabarata. These masks depict archetypal characters like demons,\u00a0deities, heroes, gods\u00a0and villains. <em>Masks of the World<\/em> has a separate chapter for Bali &amp; Java.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5516\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193c-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193c-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193c-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193c-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193c-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5508\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1193b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 27px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 279px; left: 345px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Missed the boat on buying this one about a year ago. The craftsmanship utilizes high detail in many areas, and its clearly been danced.\u00a0 Nate, 1193 A:\u00a0 This character, known as Petruk, is easy to recognize by his long nose. Sorry you didn&#8217;t get it. The carving is fabulous. As you know, masks of Java and Bali and other parts of Indonesia are inspired\u00a0by Indian influences which were originally used to\u00a0propagate religious principles and dramas from the Hindu epics such as the\u00a0Ramayana or Mahabarata. These masks depict archetypal characters like demons,\u00a0deities, heroes, gods\u00a0and villains. Masks of the World has a separate chapter for Bali &amp; Java. &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0 Save Save Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5506","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\/5506","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=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5518,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions\/5518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}