{"id":4803,"date":"2012-08-07T23:06:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2012-08-08T00:43:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:43:30","slug":"a-hectic-first-day-in-narathiwat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/a-hectic-first-day-in-narathiwat\/","title":{"rendered":"A hectic first day in Narathiwat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narathiwat. A province torn by unrest, a land misunderstood by many Thais. I arrived today, at noon, and somewhere lost in translation, I was nearly abandoned by the vehicle that was supposed to take me to the hotel. A few hours later, I was told that there was two separate bombings near the airport. No one was injured, thankfully.<\/p>\n<p>The town reminded me of the many large villages in Malaysia. I&#8217;m facing no problems speaking &#8220;Malay&#8221; with the people, yet they are equally fluent in Thai. Been a tiring day. Had visited a rubber plantation, went to have dinner with the villagers. On both occasion, I enjoyed speaking to them, for once I didn&#8217;t need a Thai translator in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"view.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?resize=520%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fmoui.net%2Fblog%2F2012%2F08%2Fa-hectic-first-day-in-narathiwat%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narathiwat. A province torn by unrest, a land misunderstood by many Thais. I arrived today, at noon, and somewhere lost in translation, I was nearly abandoned by the vehicle that was supposed to take me to the hotel. A few hours later, I was told that there was two separate bombings near the airport. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[692,490,187],"class_list":["post-4803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-living","tag-narathiwat","tag-thailand"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?fit=520%2C390&ssl=1","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?resize=100%2C150&ssl=1",100,150,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?fit=520%2C390&ssl=1",520,390,false]},"categories_names":{"3":{"name":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/category\/blog\/"}},"tags_names":{"692":{"name":"Living","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/living\/"},"490":{"name":"Narathiwat","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/narathiwat\/"},"187":{"name":"Thailand","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/thailand\/"}},"comments_number":"0","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?resize=100%2C150&ssl=1",100,150,true],"cvmm-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1",300,300,true],"cvmm-medium-plus":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?resize=305%2C207&ssl=1",305,207,true],"cvmm-portrait":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?resize=400%2C390&ssl=1",400,390,true],"cvmm-medium-square":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?resize=520%2C390&ssl=1",520,390,true],"cvmm-large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?resize=520%2C390&ssl=1",520,390,true],"cvmm-small":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?resize=130%2C95&ssl=1",130,95,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/view.jpg?fit=520%2C390&ssl=1",520,390,false]},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmP7-1ft","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}