{"id":1768,"date":"2014-08-10T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T15:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2015-04-13T09:27:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T07:27:20","slug":"ants-celebrate-songkran-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/1768-ants-celebrate-songkran-too","title":{"rendered":"Ants celebrate Songkran too !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the traditions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/events-thailand\/songkran-thai-new-year-4\">Songkran, the Thai New Year<\/a> which is held in mid-April is to make huge water fights. If we \u00a0already knew that the Thai people and tourists visiting tthe country at this time like it,\u00a0we just discovered that ants also celebrate Songkran. Yes, they do\u00a0!<\/p>\n<p>Proof in pictures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1769\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1769\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-celebrated-by-ants-560x349.jpg\" alt=\"Ants celebrating Songkran\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-celebrated-by-ants-560x349.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-celebrated-by-ants-624x389.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-celebrated-by-ants.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ants celebrating Songkran<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_1770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1770\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1770\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-fourmis-422x374.jpg\" alt=\"Ants playing songkran\" width=\"422\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-fourmis-422x374.jpg 422w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-fourmis-624x551.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-fourmis.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ants playing songkran ?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>In fact, this is a colony of wood ants that spitting acid in the air to defend themselves against predators. The moment was captured by photographer Paul Quagliana. But it is true that it is very similar to Songkran water fights\u00a0asThai netizens said on social networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the traditions of Songkran, the Thai New Year which is held in mid-April<\/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-1768","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\/1768","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=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}