{"id":54316,"date":"2023-04-13T22:41:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/13\/youre-going-to-get-wet-revellers-soak-up-thailands-first-post-pandemic-songkran-water-festival"},"modified":"2023-04-13T22:41:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T13:41:51","slug":"youre-going-to-get-wet-revellers-soak-up-thailands-first-post-pandemic-songkran-water-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54316","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You\u2019re going to get wet\u2019: revellers soak up Thailand\u2019s first post-pandemic Songkran water festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists and locals join mass water fights across Thailand to mark new year after three years of Covid restrictions<\/p>\n<p>After three years of Covid restrictions, Songkran celebrations marking the Thai new year have returned in full swing, with water fights across the country.<\/p>\n<p>At Bangkok\u2019s Si Lom Road, street sellers with stocks of colourful water pistols and floral shirts lined the streets, while shops put out tubs of icy water as refills for crowds of tourists and locals. Almost 200 official locations across the capital are holding celebrations for Songkran, and in the Gulf of Thailand, island-wide water fights were under way.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/13\/youre-going-to-get-wet-revellers-soak-up-thailands-first-post-pandemic-songkran-water-festival\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists and locals join mass water fights across Thailand to mark new year after three years of Covid restrictionsAfter three years of Covid restrictions, Songkran celebrations marking the Thai new year have returned in full swing, with water fights a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3696,"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":[41,93,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-travel","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54316","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\/3696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54317,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54316\/revisions\/54317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}