{"id":12426,"date":"2017-10-26T02:42:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T00:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/26\/thai-king-funeral-crowds-gather-to-farewell-father-of-the-nation\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T02:42:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T00:42:50","slug":"thai-king-funeral-crowds-gather-to-farewell-father-of-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12426","title":{"rendered":"Thai king funeral: crowds gather to farewell &#039;father of the nation&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a year of mourning, people gather in Bangkok before dawn for the cremation of King Bhumibol Adulyadej Black-clad mourners thronged Bangkok\u2019s historic quarter before dawn on Thursday before the cremation of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a revered monarch whose death after a seven-decade reign plunged Thailand into a year of grieving.Bhumibol\u2019s son and heir, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, will light the pyre at the heart of a spectacular golden pavilion at 10pm local time. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/26\/thai-king-funeral-crowds-gather-to-farewell-father-of-the-nation\" target=\"_blank\">Thai king funeral: crowds gather to farewell &#039;father of the nation&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year of mourning, people gather in Bangkok before dawn for the cremation of King Bhumibol Adulyadej Black-clad mourners thronged Bangkok\u2019s historic quarter before dawn on Thursday before the cremation of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a revered monarch whose death after a seven-decade reign plunged Thailand into a year of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}