{"id":890,"date":"2006-09-19T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=890"},"modified":"2007-12-25T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T13:03:08","slug":"888-of-wishing-for-a-speedy-recovery-towards-thai-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"[888] Of wishing for a speedy recovery towards Thai democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How ironic it is for us in ASEAN to discuss so profusely about getting Myanmar closer to democracy, we failed to stop a democracy from falling back into military rule.<\/p>\n<p>When I was in Bangkok <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=840\">not too long ago<\/a>, I witnessed the symbol of Thai democracy. It stands so proudly in the middle of the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/bangkokDemocracyMonument.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I as a citizen of ASEAN wish the people of Thailand a speedy return to democracy. It&#8217;s only fair for the birthplace of ASEAN to be in a democratic atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How ironic it is for us in ASEAN to discuss so profusely about getting Myanmar closer to democracy, we failed to stop a democracy from falling back into military rule. When I was in Bangkok not too long ago, I witnessed the symbol of Thai democracy. It stands so proudly in the middle of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asean","category-liberty","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}