{"id":57361,"date":"2023-08-08T23:50:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/08\/thailand-king-estranged-son-surprise-return-royal-family-succession-vacharaesorn-vivacharawongse"},"modified":"2023-08-08T23:50:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:50:32","slug":"thailand-kings-estranged-son-makes-surprise-return-after-27-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57361","title":{"rendered":"Thailand king\u2019s estranged son makes surprise return after 27 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reappearance of Vacharaesorn Vivacharawongse comes at difficult time for royal family and raises questions over succession<\/p>\n<p>The estranged second son of Thailand\u2019s king has returned to Bangkok for the first time in almost three decades, in an unannounced visit that surprised many and raised questions about the succession plan.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of Vacharaesorn Vivacharawongse making what appeared to be a low-key arrival at Suvarnabhumi airport on Sunday, and visiting sites in the capital, has been shared widely on social media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/08\/thailand-king-estranged-son-surprise-return-royal-family-succession-vacharaesorn-vivacharawongse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reappearance of Vacharaesorn Vivacharawongse comes at difficult time for royal family and raises questions over successionThe estranged second son of Thailand\u2019s king has returned to Bangkok for the first time in almost three decades, in an unannounced &#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":[41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/57361","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=57361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57377,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57361\/revisions\/57377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}