{"id":49154,"date":"2022-10-07T10:13:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T01:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/thailand-in-mourning-after-children-killed-in-mass-stabbing-and-shooting"},"modified":"2022-10-08T00:40:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T15:40:57","slug":"thailand-in-mourning-after-children-killed-in-mass-stabbing-and-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49154","title":{"rendered":"Thailand in mourning after children killed in mass stabbing and shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nation in shock after 37 people, mostly children, killed by former police officer who was due in court on drug charge<\/p>\n<p>Thailand was in a state of mourning on Friday after a gun and knife attack at a nursery left dozens dead and prompted calls for gun control and a crackdown on illicit drugs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/06\/thailand-shooting-attack-at-pre-school-centre\">Thirty-seven people were killed<\/a> when a former police officer opened fire and stabbed children as they slept at the preschool in Uthai Sawan, a town 310 miles north-east of Bangkok on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/thailand-in-mourning-after-children-killed-in-mass-stabbing-and-shooting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nation in shock after 37 people, mostly children, killed by former police officer who was due in court on drug chargeThailand was in a state of mourning on Friday after a gun and knife attack at a nursery left dozens dead and prompted calls for gun con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3355,"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":[41,1006,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gun-crime","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\/49154","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\/3355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49172,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49154\/revisions\/49172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}