{"id":956,"date":"2008-01-14T07:10:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/14\/first-24-hours-in-bangkok\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T07:10:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T12:10:49","slug":"first-24-hours-in-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"First 24 Hours in Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite that I thought I was coming during peak season here in Thailand, which is winter time, and not supposed to be as hot &#8211; it is very, very hot. In fact, I have been in the pool five times in the last 24 hours. Whew. I feel very, very pregnant too.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_3148.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">But Nabi Grace makes me grin! Here she is on my lap in the taxi going home from the airport yesterday.<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_3149.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/> And here&#8217;s the family walking to a restaurant for dinner. We ate at Reflections, which is an excellent restaurant owned by an artist friend of ours named Nong. The &#8220;rat na,&#8221; fried noodles with fish and gravy is especially good there.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite dish of the meal was an appetizer that consisted of wrapping toasted coconut, deep-fried shrimpies, roasted peanuts, finely minced garlic, onion, lime and peppers in a leaf of some sort. The whole thing was smothered in a thick sweet sauce. The result was a fresh, zingy snack that I could not get enough of. I was really surprised that enough little crunchy things wrapped in a leaf could be so satisfyingly delicious.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_3157.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\" align=\"left\">Here is a pic of Nabi Grace entertaining herself by examining every aspect of the dining porch while we were eating. I&#8217;d like to see her do Bikram &#8211; she has incredible flexibility!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\" align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_3156.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite that I thought I was coming during peak season here in Thailand, which is winter time, and not supposed to be as hot &#8211; it is very, very hot. In fact, I have been in the pool five times &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=956\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","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=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}