{"id":57,"date":"2016-09-30T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/2016\/09\/30\/2016-10-5-those-stinky-khlongs\/"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:55:00","slug":"2016-10-5-those-stinky-khlongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/2016\/09\/30\/2016-10-5-those-stinky-khlongs\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Stinky Khlongs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p>As part of Knox and Kallin&#8217;s (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andersonsquared.com\/\">reciprocal website link<\/a>) fully-rounded tour of Bangkok, I took chose to get them to the Old town the worst way. Well, second worst to Monsoon traffic&#8230;the khlong. The khlongs are the old-school highways of Bangkok, the venice of the East. Most of them have been paved over, but the ones that remain host a brisk ferry service for commuters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1475682158788-6HZA896EE8W9RMIDMPG6\/DSCF3313.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1475682066200-6Z0549CM404RKL89N5UC\/DSCF3316.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1475682628597-4Y8UCFLLAMW09NXHSCZI\/image-asset.jpeg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1475682043735-AGO0YS21FJBWB1OLH07X\/image-asset.jpeg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1475682096184-N0BSXVT54086LW46UKQA\/image-asset.jpeg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p>You have to hop on and hop off really quickly, and you must stand to indicate that you want the ferry to stop. The guy\/girl who takes the fare walks around the outside of the boat, reaching in to get your money. It&#8217;s quite a balancing act.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1475682614851-W3E4KU72DUXG3CY1IZIR\/DSCF3335.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/556929f2e4b014bf433af2e1\/1475682928625-YAM8T9BI6QIWGLSTSGII\/image-asset.jpeg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I show off the smellier side of Bangkok on the waterways of old Siam. Original water and all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangkok","tag-local-tourist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}