{"id":4015,"date":"2010-01-01T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T18:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2010-01-15T07:03:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T14:03:35","slug":"patong-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/patong-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Patong Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/24141247trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/24141247trim-450x800.jpg\" alt=\"patong beach phuket thailand\" title=\"patong beach phuket thailand\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/24141247trim-450x800.jpg 450w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/24141247trim-140x250.jpg 140w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/24141247trim.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is how I spent my Christmas Eve. If it doesn&#8217;t look like Christmas, that&#8217;s because you don&#8217;t see all the commercialism from this angle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/24113145.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/24113145-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"300 baht to swim in the ocean patong beach\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/24113145-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/24113145-249x140.jpg 249w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/24113145.jpg 1420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like, for instance, the 300 baht it costs to swim in parts of the ocean. Pretty much everything on this beach is turned into a product to be sold. It can get pretty tacky, but it is convenient. You can purchase basically anything (food, drink, clothes, bathing suits, watches, tours, time on a jet ski, you name it) without ever getting out of your beach chair. And you have to purchase your time in the beach chair too&#8211;not surprising if you&#8217;ve been to <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/cinque-terre-12-mile-walk\/>Italian beaches<\/a> but a little different than what us California natives are used to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/24141543.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/24141543-378x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"christmas santa hat beach girl\" width=\"378\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/24141543-378x800.jpg 378w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/24141543-118x250.jpg 118w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/24141543.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Santa Claus is coming to town&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how I spent my Christmas Eve. If it doesn&#8217;t look like Christmas, that&#8217;s because you don&#8217;t see all the commercialism from this angle. Like, for instance, the 300 baht it costs to swim in parts of the ocean. Pretty much everything on this beach is turned into a product to be sold. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243],"tags":[126,176,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}