{"id":15777,"date":"2017-10-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/10\/29\/thais-bid-final-goodbye-to-beloved-king-bhumibol\/"},"modified":"2017-10-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T12:00:00","slug":"thais-bid-final-goodbye-to-beloved-king-bhumibol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/10\/29\/thais-bid-final-goodbye-to-beloved-king-bhumibol\/","title":{"rendered":"Thais Bid Final Goodbye to Beloved King Bhumibol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mb.com.ph\/2017\/10\/26\/thais-bid-final-goodbye-to-beloved-king-bhumibol\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THAILAND, October 26, 2017 (Manila Bulletin): A sea of black-clad mourners massed across Bangkok&#8217;s historic heart early Thursday as funeral rituals began for King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a revered monarch whose passing after a seven-decade reign has left Thailand bereft of its only unifying figure. As dawn broke an estimated 200,000 Thais had gathered around the Grand Palace to bid an emotional farewell to a monarch known as &#8220;father of the nation&#8221;, silently packing the pavements, many clutching portraits of the beloved late king.<\/p>\n<p>The golden spires of a spectacular US$90 million cremation site, purpose-built for the funeral, were bathed in light as Bhumibol&#8217;s son and heir, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, joined Buddhist monks to start a day of sombre processions, colorful pageantry and religious ceremony. The lavish event gives the public a chance to say goodbye to a king who was crowned in 1950 and towered over decades of Thai history, before his death last October aged 88 seeded uncertainty in a country ruled by a divisive junta.<\/p>\n<p>More at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source THAILAND, October 26, 2017 (Manila Bulletin): A sea of black-clad mourners massed across Bangkok&#8217;s historic heart early Thursday as,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}