{"id":689,"date":"2007-04-29T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T04:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/29\/chatuchuk-market\/"},"modified":"2007-04-29T23:05:14","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T04:05:14","slug":"chatuchuk-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Chatuchuk Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sprawl and density of this market is difficult to capture in images or words; but the Time Out Guide states that over a quarter of a million people visit the 8,000 stalls every weekend. Now that’s a market. Open only on the weekend, I was crossing my fingers all week that I would be able to go, and go we did.<\/p>\n

Something about Chatuchuk unleashes the shopping beast within. Seeing so many goods for such low prices compels me to think of every last person for whom I can reasonably buy a souvenir. So, if you were hoping for a beautiful Thai silk cushion cover, I got you covered. I also have your box of tissues covered…<\/p>\n

And then besides buying a couple hundred pairs of wooden chopsticks as wedding gifts and 300 sage green, drawstring organza bags for my friend’s<\/em> wedding, I also bought a bathroom floor mat for Bella (?!?). I have to admit that I am a little embarrassed that I bought a full-size (relatively heavy) bathroom mat to carry back halfway across the world.<\/p>\n

I got an assortment of\u00c2\u00a0 carved wooden spoons, forks, and chopsticks…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

and a few other odds and ends to round out the purchases – like these sweet little carved wooden containers in the shape of my favorite fruit: mangkoot<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

and voodoo doll phone charms: yellow curly hair for Dawkins, dredlocks for Bella, and the funky one with a red body for me.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

And, ahem, this is not all that I purchased, just the most photogenic.<\/p>\n

[No baby yet – but Sue is having increasing Braxton Hicks…any moment now…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sprawl and density of this market is difficult to capture in images or words; but the Time Out Guide states that over a quarter of a million people visit the 8,000 stalls every weekend. Now that’s a market. Open … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shopping","category-thailand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}