{"id":4348,"date":"2010-10-18T21:43:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T01:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/?p=4348"},"modified":"2010-10-19T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:36:43","slug":"thai-travel-tidbits-number-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2010\/10\/18\/thai-travel-tidbits-number-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai travel tidbits: Durian"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4349\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2010\/10\/durian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4349\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2010\/10\/durian-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"A truckload of durian\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truckload of durian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We came around the corner in Chiang Mai one day and were faced with something I would hope to see only in a nightmare: A truck full of durian.<\/p>\n<p>A woman was just setting up to sell it, and fortunately she hadn\u2019t cut any yet.<\/p>\n<p>Durian, if you don\u2019t know, is a tropical fruit with a particularly, shall we say, pungent aroma. Kind of like something died. But I\u2019m told it tastes like, well, like something died in your mouth.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t take my word for it. Consider this: In Indonesia, where they like durian, it is illegal to eat any durian product on public transportation. And that\u2019s important enough to them that there are big signs saying so in Indonesian and English at airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We came around the corner in Chiang Mai one day and were faced with something I would hope to see only in a nightmare: A truck full of durian. A woman was just setting up to sell it, and fortunately she hadn\u2019t cut any yet. Durian, if you don\u2019t know, is a tropical fruit with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1262],"class_list":{"0":"post-4348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-thailand","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}