{"id":6757,"date":"2018-07-19T19:44:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2018-07-19T19:44:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T19:44:22","slug":"entertaining-mexican-mask-by-candelario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/entertaining-mexican-mask-by-candelario\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertaining Mexican mask by Candelario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most creative (and busy) mask makers is Herminio Candelario who lives in Suchitlan, Colima. This mask could be a coyote or a dog. Animals are used in the dance of the Morenos in which they are scaring away the Roman Centurions who are guarding Christ&#8217;s tomb. Don Herminio has been improving village dances for many years with his always-different carvings. What doesn&#8217;t get used for that purpose is sold to tourists. Collectors call the leftovers &#8220;decoratives,&#8221; which they disdain. Not me. Unused decoratives are in beautiful condition and I often add them to my Mexican mask collection. Do you like this as much as an old, used mask?<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1397.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6758\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1397-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1397-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1397-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1397-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1397-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most creative (and busy) mask makers is Herminio Candelario who lives in Suchitlan, Colima. This mask could be a coyote or a dog. Animals are used in the dance of the Morenos in which they are scaring away the Roman Centurions who are guarding Christ&#8217;s tomb. Don Herminio has been improving village dances for many years with his always-different carvings. What doesn&#8217;t get used for that purpose is sold to tourists. Collectors call the leftovers &#8220;decoratives,&#8221; which they disdain. Not me. Unused decoratives are in beautiful condition and I often add them to my Mexican mask collection. Do you like this as much as an old, used mask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6757","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\/6757","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=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6759,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions\/6759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}