{"id":4366,"date":"2010-10-21T09:34:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T13:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/?p=4366"},"modified":"2010-10-21T09:34:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T13:34:24","slug":"thai-travel-tidbits-sidewalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2010\/10\/21\/thai-travel-tidbits-sidewalks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai travel tidbits: Sidewalks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4367\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2010\/10\/sidewalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4367\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2010\/10\/sidewalk-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Sidewalks are for ...\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sidewalks are for ...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OK, here\u2019s a quick quiz for you.<\/p>\n<p>Sidewalks are for:<\/p>\n<p>a.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pedestrians<\/p>\n<p>b.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Riding motorbikes, especially against the flow of traffic<\/p>\n<p>c.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Parking, especially for motorbikes<\/p>\n<p>d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Setting up stands for selling food<\/p>\n<p>e.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All of the above<\/p>\n<p>In the USA, of course, the answer is \u201ca.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But not in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>On one-way streets, or divided highways, motorbikes will use the sidewalk to go against the flow of traffic. That\u2019s also where many of them choose to park \u2013 sometimes so many of them that you have to walk in the street to get around them.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, it\u2019s a great place to sell food. People set up little carts or tables with woks and grills and cook right on or next to the sidewalks. There\u2019s even a restaurant that sets up each night on a wide area of sidewalk near our hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, here\u2019s a quick quiz for you. Sidewalks are for: a.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pedestrians b.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Riding motorbikes, especially against the flow of traffic c.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Parking, especially for motorbikes d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Setting up stands for selling food e.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All of the above In the USA, of course, the answer is \u201ca.\u201d But not in Thailand. On one-way streets, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","tag-thailand","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","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=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}