{"id":2324,"date":"2015-04-16T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T06:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2015-04-16T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T06:11:09","slug":"songkran-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2324-songkran-2015","title":{"rendered":"This was Songkran 2015 !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, the official 3 days of Songkran\u00a0are finished (although in some cities such as Pattaya it continues). We picked\u00a0a small selection of <em>Bangkok Post<\/em>\u00a0pictures\u00a0to illustrate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/events-thailand\/songkran-thai-new-year-4\"><strong>Songkran Festival in 2015<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5919\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5919\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-2015-10-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Songkran 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids love\u00a0Songkran !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Songkran is a subtle blend of religious rites, prayers, paying respect to old people and &#8230; and&#8230; big\u00a0water fights and parties. And it&#8217;s mostly pictures of water fights in the street that are flooding the web every year. Small selection&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5910\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-2015-01-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Songkran 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Songkran,\u00a0is sometimes like a wet T-shirts contest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-2015-02-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Songkran 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-2015-08-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Songkran 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5916\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-2015-07-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Songkran 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foam Party at\u00a0Central World Bangkok<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5915\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-2015-06-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Songkran 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_5913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5913\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-2015-04-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Songkran 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And we dance\u00a0!<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_5912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5912\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5912\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-2015-03-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Songkran 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A little selfy&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_5918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5918\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5918\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-2015-09-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Songkran 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This man was on a lot of pictures and videos&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_5920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5920\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/songkran-2015-11-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Songkran 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You are safe nowherre not even in the \u00a0\u00a0&#8211; Photos: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bangkok Post<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>There were also beautiful temple ceremonies\u00a0where people put\u00a0scented water on Buddha statues. And this is the <a href=\"\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/wat-phra-kaew-bangkok-4\">Wat Phra Kaew in Bangkok<\/a> that attracted most people. So many\u00a0that\u00a0access was free !<\/p>\n<p>This was a small excerpt images <strong>Songkran 2015<\/strong>, see you next year for new wet\u00a0adventures !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, the official 3 days of Songkran\u00a0are finished (although in some cities such<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2324","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\/2324","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=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}