{"id":788,"date":"2006-05-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=788"},"modified":"2006-10-09T20:32:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T12:32:27","slug":"786-of-white-elephant-for-the-thai-monarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"[786] Of white elephant for the Thai monarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2006\/5\/12\/central\/14154789&#038;sec=central\">The Star today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Nation reported that all &#8220;white&#8221; elephants found in Thailand must be presented to the king and become his sole ownership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;White elephants are regarded as auspicious. The more a monarch acquires during a reign, the more prosperous and happy his kingdom will be,&#8221; according to The Nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you thinking what I&#8217;m thinking?<\/p>\n<p>If no, Malaysia does have a &#8220;white elephant&#8221; in Johor. Since the Thais see white elephants as auspicious, they&#8217;d appreciate Malaysia offering our white elephant to them as, er, gift of friendship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Star today: The Nation reported that all &#8220;white&#8221; elephants found in Thailand must be presented to the king and become his sole ownership. &#8220;White elephants are regarded as auspicious. The more a monarch acquires during a reign, the more prosperous and happy his kingdom will be,&#8221; according to The Nation. Are you thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asean","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}