{"id":654,"date":"2013-08-22T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T22:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2015-11-08T20:30:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:30:05","slug":"could-this-be-wwii-family-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/could-this-be-wwii-family-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Could this be WWII family treasure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-646\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-533n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-646\" alt=\"Japanese mystery\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-533n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-533n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-533n-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese mystery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I got it from my father in law who spent time in Japan after WW2. It is about 10&#8243; from the top down to the nose and 10 wide (ear to ear). It is a lightweight wood, painted. Some of the paint has peeled off but a lot is still there.\u00a0 Tony, 533<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> The Japanese people were desperate for goods and services during the first few years of occupation and willingly traded family heirlooms to make ends meet.<!--more--> Many wonderful masks got into American collections that way. I do not recognize this demon mask and urge you to get an expert&#8217;s opinion.\u00a0 <strong>A ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I got it from my father in law who spent time in Japan after WW2. It is about 10&#8243; from the top down to the nose and 10 wide (ear to ear). It is a lightweight wood, painted. Some of the paint has peeled off but a lot is still there.\u00a0 Tony, 533 A: The Japanese people were desperate for goods and services during the first few years of occupation and willingly traded family heirlooms to make ends meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","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=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}