{"id":540,"date":"2018-02-12T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travels.x10.bz\/wp\/?p=540"},"modified":"2022-07-08T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T23:19:15","slug":"bright-lights-big-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/12\/bright-lights-big-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Lights!  Big City!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok is just a chaotic as we remembered!  We&#8217;re staying in a Novotel Hotel in busy section of the city called Siam Square.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1884-2.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-537 size-full\" height=\"3024\" width=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1884-2.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1884-2-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1884-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1884-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1884-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1884-2-750x563.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Monday and nearly all of the museums and major markets are closed.  We didn&#8217;t wander far from our neighborhood as the temps were over 90 degrees today but we still managed to walk several miles.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is prepared for the Chinese New Year Celebrations!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1890.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-538 size-full\" height=\"1242\" width=\"1656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1890.jpg 1656w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1890-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1890-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1890-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1890-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1890-750x563.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This display of lanterns is in one of the Mega-Malls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1896.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-539 size-full\" height=\"4032\" width=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1896.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1896-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1896-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1896-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_1896-750x1000.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our bags are packed and we&#8217;re mentally preparing for the 24-hour marathon that begins Tuesday morning.  We&#8217;ll make one stop in Seoul before we land back in Atlanta.  It&#8217;s been a fun, interesting and exciting journey!<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok is just a chaotic as we remembered! We&#8217;re staying in a Novotel Hotel in busy section of the city called Siam Square. It&#8217;s Monday and nearly all of the museums and major markets are closed. We didn&#8217;t wander far from our neighborhood as the temps were over 90 degrees today but we still managed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/12\/bright-lights-big-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bright Lights!  Big City!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}