{"id":21084,"date":"2014-09-16T18:56:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21084"},"modified":"2014-09-16T19:32:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T19:32:29","slug":"bangkok-canals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21084","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok Canals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite bits of my stay in Bangkok was a longboat ride through some of the city's canals. I did basically no research about the city or the country before we went, so I didn't know about the canals until we got on the boat and headed up river. But, turns out that there is a large network of canals that spider throughout the city, connecting all corners to the big slow river that the city straddles. And, while the streets are crazed and crowded, the canals are downright placid. Aside from boats full of tourists, there were only a handful of locals scooting around in little skiffs.<\/p>\n<p>It's a completely different side of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/images\/thailand\/thai_canal_4.jpg\"><br \/>\nNikon D90\n<\/p>\n<p>Practically idyllic, by comparison.<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/images\/thailand\/thai_canal_2.jpg\"><br \/>\nNikon D90\n<\/p>\n<p>The open air and sunlight make a good place for growing plants:<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/images\/thailand\/thai_canal_1.jpg\"><br \/>\nNikon D90\n<\/p>\n<p>... or for putting up art galleries:<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/images\/thailand\/thai_canal_3.jpg\"><br \/>\nNikon D90\n<\/p>\n<p>And the canals are home to thousands of catfish which hang around waiting for people to feed them. <\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/images\/thailand\/thai_canal_fish.jpg\"><br \/>\nNikon D90\n<\/p>\n<p>It's good luck (or so the signs all say, in English) to feed the fish. And so there are people who make a living selling fish pellets.<\/p>\n<p>And then there are the monitor lizards who lounge around on the banks of the canal, menacing anyone who gets close:<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/images\/thailand\/thai_canal_liz.jpg\"><br \/>\nNikon D90\n<\/p>\n<p>A bit of nature, in the middle of a city of more than 6M people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite bits of my stay in Bangkok was a longboat ride through some of the city's canals. I did basically no research about the city or the country before we went, so I didn't know about the canals until we got on the boat and headed up river. But, turns out that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21084"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21091,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21084\/revisions\/21091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}