{"id":58573,"date":"2023-09-21T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T01:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/21\/thai-king-son-vacharaesorn-vivacharawongse-estranged-royal-anti-defamation-monarchy"},"modified":"2023-09-21T10:32:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T01:32:14","slug":"estranged-son-of-thai-king-vajiralongkorn-says-discussion-of-the-monarchy-should-be-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58573","title":{"rendered":"Estranged son of Thai King Vajiralongkorn says discussion of the monarchy should be allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York-based Vacharaesorn Vivacharawongse signals he rejects Thailand\u2019s harsh lese majeste laws, which ban criticism of the royal family<\/p>\n<p>An estranged son of Thailand\u2019s king who has spent almost all his adult life away from his homeland has unexpectedly gone public with his belief that open discussions about the country\u2019s monarchy should be allowed, in a rejection of a harsh royal anti-defamation law.<\/p>\n<p>Vacharaesorn Vivacharawongse, one of the king\u2019s five sons, posted his opinion on Facebook after attending a photo exhibition in New York about people who have been charged under the law, Article 112 of Thailand\u2019s Criminal Code.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/21\/thai-king-son-vacharaesorn-vivacharawongse-estranged-royal-anti-defamation-monarchy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York-based Vacharaesorn Vivacharawongse signals he rejects Thailand\u2019s harsh lese majeste laws, which ban criticism of the royal familyAn estranged son of Thailand\u2019s king who has spent almost all his adult life away from his homeland has unexpectedl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3963,"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-58573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","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\/58573","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\/3963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58574,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58573\/revisions\/58574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}