{"id":19318,"date":"2015-04-09T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=19318"},"modified":"2015-04-09T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T03:03:13","slug":"trip-to-surat-thani-from-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=19318","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Surat Thani from Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/surat-thani1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-19323\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/surat-thani1-85x150.png\" alt=\"surat thani1\" width=\"135\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/surat-thani2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-19324\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/surat-thani2-165x150.jpg\" alt=\"surat thani2\" width=\"256\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click on the map for a better image)<\/p>\n<p>This Sat, Thais begin a long water festival holiday called Songkran. It is the Thai New Year. During the festival, adults pour water on the palm or back of their parents, as a mark of respect, while children and adults make the event fun by splashing water on the bodies of one another. It&#8217;s fun and thousands of foreigners congregate in Thailand to celebrate this occasion. Many thais start the holiday this Sat and ends next Sun, almost 9 days.<\/p>\n<p>I am in Bangkok, and will drive to Surat Thani, which is in Southern Thailand, and will take me 10 hrs, with a number of stops. For those who went to Samui with me for the Full Moon party, you may remember we stopped at Surath Thani.<\/p>\n<p>Starting from Sat, I shall write about my trip, put up some pictures and hope you will enjoy them. I hope you will join me sometime.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to encourage members to share their holidays too. Keep in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Terence Seah<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Click on the map for a better image) This Sat, Thais begin a long water festival holiday called Songkran. It is the Thai New Year. During the festival, adults pour water on the palm or back of their parents, as a mark of respect, while children and adults make the event fun by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=19318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trip to Surat Thani from Bangkok&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19327,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions\/19327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}