{"id":8570,"date":"2014-11-18T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T08:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=8570"},"modified":"2020-07-25T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T06:23:05","slug":"the-morning-after-the-loy-krathong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/the-morning-after-the-loy-krathong","title":{"rendered":"The morning after the Loy Krathong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I almost missed <strong>Loy Khrathong<\/strong>! I had checked an online date and time site for this years date, but it was wrong and the party was last night. Fortunately, I live next to a temple and it was loud, a friend called and asked if I wanted to go and that was that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/after-loy-krathong.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I took the walkway along the canal to the back of the temple where people were lighting and launching their <strong>khrathong<\/strong> and taking family pictures. There were kids swimming in the canal taking the coins out of the <strong>khrathong<\/strong>, old alcoholics slipping out of the temple grounds to take a pull on there stashed bottle, lots of sparklers, and some very well fed fish. So well fed by the time I got there that they weren\u2019t very interested in the bread I tossed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inside the temple grounds it was a full fair with people selling small fish to release for merit, food vendors of all kinds, a film projector showing a comedy on a big screen in front of some tables and chairs they had set up, a handful of people vending random odds and ends, and all the pop the balloon or shoot the target for a stuffed animal things you\u2019d expect from a fair. And, of course, all of the sacred objects and prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a crepe, a durian popsicle, a bite of some yum, and a jelly drink. It was all really quite nice and I\u2019m really looking forward to the next temple fair now. This is a relatively small temple, and this makes me wonder if there aren\u2019t comparable celebrations at countless locations around the city. For the traveler this means a whole new array of quieter ways to celebrate the holiday. Maybe at a temple within walking distance of your hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost missed Loy Khrathong! I had checked an online date and time site for this years date, but it was wrong and the party was last night. Fortunately, I live next to a temple and it was loud, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[609,212],"tags":[809,380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11070,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570\/revisions\/11070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}