{"id":2189,"date":"2018-07-08T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.backeman.se\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2018-07-08T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T21:00:00","slug":"buddah-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backeman.se\/index.php\/2018\/07\/08\/buddah-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddah Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Got up around 9:30, not the best sleep, probably because of the rather hard beds, even though I have a full 140cm to myself. Got breakfast and wrote yesterday&#8217;s post, remembering the sad ending of Sweden&#8217;s participation in the World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rented a scooter and got out in Thong Sala for some shopping. During my little expedition, I discovered what looked like an old warship, in a small pond. Seemed to be a museum but closed at the moment. Found a bunch of stuff and headed back to Lime &amp; Soda. Some chilling at the swimming pool until dinnertime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mattias had found this Korean place and suggested BBQ there. Everyone headed over to the restaurant with either a scooter or a taxi. Half of us ordered BBQ and it was amazing. You got raw meat in slices that primarily the staff fried on a grill on the table and then you just took pieces, dipped it in one of three sauces, put it and some vegetables on a piece of salad, and just stuffed it on your mouth, delicious. I got a bit stressed by the constant frying meat but in the end, we got really full and just plain happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After dinner, we headed to a Buddha festival or something. Lots of food stands, some real high-quality shopping, game stands, and of course a stage with Thai(?) music. The band seemed to enjoy themselves, I had no clue what they were singing. At the stage, there were tables and beer stands. We ordered a &#8220;draft tower&#8221;, filled with beer. People were happy <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t4c\/1\/16\/1f642.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude42\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drove back home on the scooter to end the evening in the bar at the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got up around 9:30, not the best sleep, probably because of the rather hard beds, even though I have a full 140cm to myself. Got breakfast and wrote yesterday&#8217;s post, remembering the sad ending of Sweden&#8217;s participation in the World Cup. Rented a scooter and got out in Thong Sala for some shopping. During my&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/backeman.se\/index.php\/2018\/07\/08\/buddah-festival\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buddah Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backeman.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backeman.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backeman.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backeman.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backeman.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/backeman.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backeman.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backeman.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backeman.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}