{"id":590,"date":"2013-08-09T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2015-10-28T20:40:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:40:52","slug":"day-of-the-dead-is-short-for-decorative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/day-of-the-dead-is-short-for-decorative\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of the Dead usually means decorative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-524n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-591 alignleft\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-524n\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-524n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-524n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-524n-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>Q<\/strong>: I was told this is a Mexican Day of the Dead mask. The rarity, quality and looks have me stumped.\u00a0 Nathan, 524<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 It&#8217;s a Guerrero-type face with horns and decoration more common to other states.<!--more--> I haven&#8217;t seen it before either, but it&#8217;s very Mexican. We should call it decorative. Day of the Dead material is very popular with tourists. Many of these masks are in the shape of skulls, and there are a few other characters as well. This is not one of them, however.\u00a0 <strong>C+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I was told this is a Mexican Day of the Dead mask. The rarity, quality and looks have me stumped.\u00a0 Nathan, 524 A:\u00a0 It&#8217;s a Guerrero-type face with horns and decoration more common to other states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","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\/590","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=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3459,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/3459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}