{"id":47,"date":"2006-09-27T18:30:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/wordpress\/archives\/47"},"modified":"2011-03-24T08:08:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T08:08:22","slug":"all-is-swell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/47","title":{"rendered":"All is&nbsp;swell&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing new to report on the coup&#8230; the military is still out and about guarding places here and there.&nbsp; Can&#39;t complain that this is the most peaceful coup I&#39;ve been in, or the only one for that matter&#8230; hmm&#8230; being in Kosovo or Macedonia had a little more excitment than this. But I can&#39;t complain &#8211; no blood and gore is a GOOD thing.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"imagelink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/resize-of-rotation-of-dscn7627.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"We are soldiers\"><img src=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/resize-of-rotation-of-dscn7627-150x150.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"We are soldiers\" title=\"We are soldiers\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/span>The photo on the right is from the Hualomphong train station in Bangkok.&nbsp; These dudes were just hanging out at the station watching people walk by.&nbsp; There&#39;s a lot of military out there right now just hanging out, but not much action going on in the city.&nbsp; There are still tanks by the Government House, but the atmosphere is pretty friendly.&nbsp; I passed by there last week and, i swear, there must have been over a thousand people snapping photos of the soldiers and tanks.&nbsp; They&#39;ve now put up some barriers&#8230; maybe the military&#39;s scared of the people being too friendly to the soldiers.&nbsp; The miliutary is still cracking down on political gatherings. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/resize-of-rotation-of-dscn7621.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Chillin&#39;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/resize-of-rotation-of-dscn7621-150x150.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Chillin&#39;\" title=\"Chillin&#39;\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>It&#39;s the rainy season and the mosquitos (or mozzies for you ozzies out there) are around.&nbsp; I&#39;ve swatting at them all day today.&nbsp; It doesn&#39;t really help with paying attention to work.&nbsp; And doing laundry is a pain in the A$$&#8230; not that doing is a problem, but that it never dries when its always raining and always humid.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, congrats to my friends Chris and Cindy who are going to be having a baby early next year!&nbsp; Geez&#8230; we&#39;re all getting older.&nbsp; Still feel like I&#39;m in my early 20&#39;s&#8230; I wonder if that&#39;s a good or bad thing?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Caught this dog chillin&#39; out at Victory Monument last week while heading into town.&nbsp; It took me about 2 hours that day to get from my house to the United Nations Building.&nbsp; At least it wasn&#39;t &quot;that&quot; hot ;o) <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing new to report on the coup&#8230; the military is still out and about guarding places here and there.&nbsp; Can&#39;t complain that this is the most peaceful coup I&#39;ve been in, or the only one for that matter&#8230; hmm&#8230; being in Kosovo or Macedonia had a little more excitment than this. But I can&#39;t complain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/47\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All is&nbsp;swell&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[3,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}