{"id":20105,"date":"2020-07-05T03:49:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/04\/lets-do-karaoke-bangkok-nightlife-eases-out-of-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-07-05T03:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T18:49:21","slug":"lets-do-karaoke-bangkok-nightlife-eases-out-of-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20105","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Let&rsquo;s do karaoke!&#8217;: Bangkok nightlife eases out of lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city\u2019s bars, clubs and even massage parlours are beginning to buzz again but the absence of tourists is taking its toll<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A mix of K-pop, sweet Thai love ballads and 90s music reverberates along the corridor of one of Bangkok\u2019s popular karaoke spots. In private rooms, parties of friends strike poses and bellow into microphones.<\/p>\n<p>After three months of silence, Thailand\u2019s nightlife was allowed to reopen on 1 July \u2013 provided venues follow government rules to prevent the spread of coronavirus. \u201cYou can dance, as long as you keep a distance from your friends,\u201d explains Planisara Suksit, branch manager of Yes!! R&amp;B Karaoke in Thonglor, her voice muffled by a face mask and plastic shield.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/04\/lets-do-karaoke-bangkok-nightlife-eases-out-of-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city\u2019s bars, clubs and even massage parlours are beginning to buzz again but the absence of tourists is taking its tollCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA mix of K-pop, sweet Thai love ballads and 90s music reverberates al&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,1069,914,958,1332,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-poverty","category-sex-trade","category-thailand","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\/20105","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20106,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20105\/revisions\/20106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}