{"id":1449,"date":"2014-04-28T09:29:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T07:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2014-04-28T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T07:30:45","slug":"bangkok-the-life-of-a-boat-family-in-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/1449-bangkok-the-life-of-a-boat-family-in-1970","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok: the life of a boat family in 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also called <em>&#8220;Venice of Asia&#8221;<\/em> because of its small canals (the <a href=\"\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/the-klongs-bangkok-3\"><em>klongs<\/em><\/a>) running through the city, Bangkok has always been a place where water has a great importance. The activity on the river and canals was still very intense a few decades ago as you can see in this short film of 1970.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bangkok-klongs-1970.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3048\" alt=\"Khlongs Bangkok 1970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bangkok-klongs-1970.jpg\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0k9_vB4Xj4A\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bangkok is crossed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chao_Phraya_River\" target=\"_blank\">Chao Phraya River<\/a> which divides the city in two parts. On the right bank, more traditional, there are many khlongs. Before the development of roads and the hegemony of cars and tuk-tuks, they were the main circulation ways in the Thai capital. Activity there was very significant.<\/p>\n<p>Since then many cars appeared in the streets making Bangkok one of the cities with the worst trafic jam in the world. Still some evidence of that old time remain: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/damnoen-saduak-floating-market-amphawa-61\">floating markets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also called &#8220;Venice of Asia&#8221; because of its small canals (the klongs) running through the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}