{"id":1117,"date":"2011-01-04T16:36:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T00:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2011-05-02T11:16:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T18:16:59","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated the New Year in Thailand at an old historic mansion, in downtown Chiang Mai. There was an outdoor dinner which was all the fantastic Northern Thai food you could eat for about $7.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6652.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6652.jpg\" alt=\"Feast\" title=\"Feast\" width=\"560\" height=\"742\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1119\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6652.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6652-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe dinner was followed by a series of cultural dances, which our kids copied on the sidelines, to the delight of many other viewers. Bence especially can certainly shake it with the best of them!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6659.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6659.jpg\" alt=\"Thai dancing\" title=\"Thai dancing\" width=\"560\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1120\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6659.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6659-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6672.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6672.jpg\" alt=\"Thai dancer\" title=\"Thai dancer\" width=\"560\" height=\"615\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1121\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6672.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6672-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter the dinner and show, we went back to their house and did the traditional Thai thing; light lanterns and let them float up to the sky. The kids love this.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6693.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6693.jpg\" alt=\"Lantern lighting\" title=\"Lantern lighting\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1123\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6693.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6693-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6694.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6694.jpg\" alt=\"Kids are fascinated\" title=\"Kids are fascinated\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1124\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6694.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6694-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSome people even attach fireworks to them so they are trailing fireworks as the float up. There are hundreds going up all night long, quite a sight. If there are hundreds of lanterns, there are thousands of fireworks, and it is quite an amazing sound both near and echoing off in the distance.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6686.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6686.jpg\" alt=\"Many lanterns\" title=\"Many lanterns\" width=\"560\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1122\" srcset=\"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6686.jpg 560w, http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_6686-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe wish all of our friends and family a wonderful 2011; may it be filled with love and laughter!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated the New Year in Thailand at an old historic mansion, in downtown Chiang Mai. There was an outdoor dinner which was all the fantastic Northern Thai food you could eat for about $7. The dinner was followed by a series of cultural dances, which our kids copied on the sidelines, to the delight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[206,189,185,190],"tags":[211,481,42,212,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huntadventures.ca\/our-travels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}