{"id":12112,"date":"2019-12-13T11:16:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T02:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/13\/traditional-thai-massage-gains-unesco-heritage-status"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T02:16:51","slug":"traditional-thai-massage-gains-unesco-heritage-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12112","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Thai massage gains Unesco heritage status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Practice of nuad Thai, which has gained global recognition, is added to Unesco\u2019s \u2018intangible cultural heritage\u2019 list<\/p>\n<p>The body-folding, sharp-elbowed techniques of Thai massage have been added to Unesco\u2019s prestigious heritage list.<\/p>\n<p>Originating in India and practised in Thailand for centuries, the massage was popularised when a special school opened in the 1960s to train massage therapists from around the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/13\/traditional-thai-massage-gains-unesco-heritage-status\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practice of nuad Thai, which has gained global recognition, is added to Unesco\u2019s \u2018intangible cultural heritage\u2019 listThe body-folding, sharp-elbowed techniques of Thai massage have been added to Unesco\u2019s prestigious heritage list.Originating in India an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93,995,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-unesco","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12113,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112\/revisions\/12113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}