{"id":358,"date":"2007-12-05T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2008-04-09T21:13:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:13:17","slug":"king-bhumibol-adulyadej","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/king-bhumibol-adulyadej\/","title":{"rendered":"King Bhumibol Adulyadej"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations are taking place in Thailand today to mark the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7128105.stm\">80th birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej<\/a>, the world&#8217;s longest serving monarch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/12\/photogalleries\/wip-week58\/photo4.html\">National Geographic<\/a> has published a special report celebrating King Bhumibol&#8217;s life.  It is worth seeing because of his life long example of care and commitment in his role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7128935.stm\">Why Thailand&#8217;s king is so revered<\/a> by the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>He is a living example of noblesse oblige and a role model for people with power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long live King Bhumibol!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations are taking place in Thailand today to mark the 80th birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world&#8217;s longest serving monarch. National Geographic has published a special report celebrating King Bhumibol&#8217;s life. It is worth seeing because of his life long example of care and commitment in his role. Why Thailand&#8217;s king is so revered &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/king-bhumibol-adulyadej\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">King Bhumibol Adulyadej<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-5M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}