{"id":3806,"date":"2012-03-10T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2012-03-07T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T13:40:16","slug":"elephants-thailands-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/elephants-thailands-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephants &#8211; Thailand&#8217;s Pride!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our outing with the Pibulsonggram family, we visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nongnoochtropicalgarden.com\/\">Nong Nooch Park<\/a> just outside of Pattaya. Complete with colorful characters and some entertaining shows that showcased Thailand&#8217;s incredibly deep culture, the day proved to be a great time. The highlight for us &#8211; by far &#8211; was the elephants. They could do everything from throw darts to dance to paint to even give a massage or two.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3806 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/elephants-thailands-pride\/dscf1469\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCF1469-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3807\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3807'>\n\t\t\t\tWho knew Thailand was also famous for genetically altered gorillas?!?\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/elephants-thailands-pride\/dscf1471\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCF1471-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3808\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3808'>\n\t\t\t\tThis cat is zonked out from the incredible heat&#8230;.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/elephants-thailands-pride\/img_6762\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_6762-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3810\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3810'>\n\t\t\t\tThat pretty flower was an elephant artist special &#8211; for sale for only 250 Baht!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/elephants-thailands-pride\/img_6775\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_6775-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3811\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3811'>\n\t\t\t\tNot an ideal masseuse, but he did the job\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/elephants-thailands-pride\/dscf1558\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCF1558-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3809\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3809'>\n\t\t\t\tMeg and Pepe reward the elephants with some some bananas&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/elephants-thailands-pride\/img_6777\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_6777-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3812\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3812'>\n\t\t\t\tHiya, my name is Snuffles\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tLPTwj1AI7w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our outing with the Pibulsonggram family, we visited Nong Nooch Park just outside of Pattaya. Complete with colorful characters and some entertaining shows that showcased Thailand&#8217;s incredibly deep culture, the day proved to be a great time. The highlight for us &#8211; by far &#8211; was the elephants. They could do everything&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/elephants-thailands-pride\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[46,20],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture","category-video","tag-thailand","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}