{"id":8509,"date":"2019-11-08T19:50:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T19:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2019-11-08T19:50:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T19:50:15","slug":"botarga-mask-from-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/botarga-mask-from-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Botarga mask from Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Arbancon.-Botarga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Arbancon.-Botarga-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Arbancon.-Botarga-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Arbancon.-Botarga.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a>Different parts of Spain have their own unique ways of designing masks and costumes for celebration. I believe the botarga, a distinctive character associated with the traditional winter festivities in the region of Guadalajara, is the fifth blog I done on Spanish masks. They are all different. <\/p>\n<p>The botarga is a character connected to today\u2019s religious celebrations. Its origins are thought to date from pre-Roman times and to be related with fertility rites. The mask&#8217;s typical accessories are the brightly colored costume, a truncheon, castanets and the cowbells tied around the waist. It is made of brightly painted walnut wood. The face resembles a devil, with an open mouth, pointed teeth, small cloth ears and whiskers, eyebrows, a beard and hair made of horsehair stuck onto cloth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different parts of Spain have their own unique ways of designing masks and costumes for celebration. I believe the botarga, a distinctive character associated with the traditional winter festivities in the region of Guadalajara, is the fifth blog I done on Spanish masks. They are all different. The botarga is a character connected to today\u2019s religious celebrations. Its origins are thought to date from pre-Roman times and to be related with fertility rites. The mask&#8217;s typical accessories are the brightly colored costume, a truncheon, castanets and the cowbells tied around the waist. It is made of brightly painted walnut wood. The face resembles a devil, with an open mouth, pointed teeth, small cloth ears and whiskers, eyebrows, a beard and hair made of horsehair stuck onto cloth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509","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=8509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8511,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions\/8511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}