{"id":39411,"date":"2021-12-02T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T02:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/02\/can-russell-crowe-succeed-in-cleaning-up-bangkoks-terrible-wiring"},"modified":"2021-12-02T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T02:51:27","slug":"can-russell-crowe-succeed-in-cleaning-up-bangkoks-terrible-wiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39411","title":{"rendered":"Can Russell Crowe succeed in cleaning up Bangkok\u2019s terrible wiring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tweet from the actor has sparked a call to action by Thailand\u2019s prime minister, but will anything really change?<\/p>\n<p>Reams of black wiring suspended between poles, haphazardly bundled into nest-like knots, and often hanging at head height are a common sight in Bangkok, and has become almost synonymous with the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you walk around my area, there are many wire bundles hanging down to human height or sitting on the ground along the pedestrian walkway,\u201d says Kullapa Sakkaravech, a language teacher from Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/02\/can-russell-crowe-succeed-in-cleaning-up-bangkoks-terrible-wiring\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tweet from the actor has sparked a call to action by Thailand\u2019s prime minister, but will anything really change?Reams of black wiring suspended between poles, haphazardly bundled into nest-like knots, and often hanging at head height are a common sig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2710,"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":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39411","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\/2710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39412,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39411\/revisions\/39412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}