{"id":2876,"date":"2025-11-08T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/always-wanted-to-move-to-thailand\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:24:49","slug":"always-wanted-to-move-to-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/always-wanted-to-move-to-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Wanted to Move to Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh how I wanted to move to Thailand<br>\nnot for the women in the streets<br>\noutside the bars<br>\nor the drinking and the wild partying <\/p>\n<p>not to be a sex tourist<br>\nfar from those empty, carnal pleasures<br>\nexcept for the pleasures of<br>\na one and only true love<br>\nand many are the exotically<br>\nbeautiful Thai women<\/p>\n<p>though not a Buddhist, I wanted to see<br>\nthe Buddhist temples<br>\nand the Buddhist monks<br>\nand at that time I was interested in<br>\nMauy Thai, would have loved to<br>\nhave attended the fights<br>\nmaybe I would have bought a<br>\nphra kruang amulet<\/p>\n<p>never got there, went to the Philippines<br>\ninstead<br>\na beautiful Filipina changed my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh how I wanted to move to Thailand not for the women in the streets outside the bars or the drinking and the wild partying not to be a sex tourist far from those empty, carnal pleasures except for the pleasures of a one and only true love and many are the exotically beautiful Thai&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/always-wanted-to-move-to-thailand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}