{"id":312,"date":"2005-06-02T20:24:43","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T20:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2005-06-02T20:24:43","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T20:24:43","slug":"thoughts_on_bkk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/thoughts_on_bkk\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on BKK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had four days here and I&#8217;ve been able to scratch the surface here.  BKK is big and sprawly but the sights are all mostly downtown and easily navigated.<br \/>\nTransit, food (as long it&#8217;s local) and lodging can be cheap! Hella cheep!  However, the same rule re: expats applies (expat friendly = wallet unfriendly).<br \/>\nPeople here have been friendly and helpful.  But I&#8217;ve been hearing the same thing over and over: &#8220;if you wanna see Thailand, get outta BKK&#8221;.<br \/>\nSo I was thinking&#8230;you can fly directly into Chiang Mai and then rent a motorcycle&#8230;<br \/>\nWatch this space in a few months for more..! =P<br \/>\nI begin the long haul back home today.  I fly outta BKK back to SIN and then tomorrow AM, fly back to HKG.<br \/>\nThen on Tuesday, I catch my transpacific flight back to SFO.  That flight&#8217;s gonna be rough. At least there&#8217;s a stopover in NRT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had four days here and I&#8217;ve been able to scratch the surface here. BKK is big and sprawly but the sights are all mostly downtown and easily navigated. Transit, food (as long it&#8217;s local) and lodging can be cheap! Hella cheep! However, the same rule re: expats applies (expat friendly = wallet unfriendly). People &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/thoughts_on_bkk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thoughts on BKK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2005-05-nrt-hkg-sin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-52","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}