{"id":2052,"date":"2015-01-01T10:21:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T08:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T08:21:39","slug":"happy-new-year-2558","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2052-happy-new-year-2558","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2558 !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/eng\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Thailandee.com<\/a> wish you a happy new year ! A big thank you for having visited \u00a0our website and followed our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThailandeecomEnglish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook page<\/a> in 2014 !<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2053\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2053\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/happy-new-year-2558-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Happy New Year Thailand\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/happy-new-year-2558-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/happy-new-year-2558-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/happy-new-year-2558.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In thai calendar we are in 2558<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Why, Happy newyear in 2558?&#8221;, will probably some of you ask. The others\u00a0already know the ans.<\/p>\n<p>No, you have not slept\u00a0the longest night of your life and woke up 543 years later. No, you have not traveled\u00a0in time. If Thailand uses a lot the Western calendar that starts (although there is a controversy about it) the year of Christ&#8217;s birth and in which this morning is the first morning\u00a0of\u00a02015, Thai calendar is a Buddhist\u00a0calendar in which\u00a0today we are in 2558.<\/p>\n<p>The Buddhist calendar starts with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parinirvana\" target=\"_blank\">parinivarna of lord Buddha<\/a> which took place 543 years before the (supposed) birth of Jesus Christ. Basically, the Buddhist\u00a0calendar does\u00a0not start in January but since 1941 (2484 in the Buddhist calendar), the Thai year also begins on January 1, although the Thai New Year called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/1317-celebrating-songkran-in-bangkok\">Songkran<\/a>, it is still celebrated in April.<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0in Thailand you have the opportunity to celebrate the new year 2 times and even 3 times if\u00a0you also want to celbrate the\u00a0Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailandee.com wish you a happy new year ! A big thank you for having visited<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","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=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}