{"id":25868,"date":"2018-12-17T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25868"},"modified":"2018-12-17T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T09:22:38","slug":"bangkoks-chinese-opera-uncertain-future-of-ancient-art-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25868","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok&#8217;s Chinese opera: Uncertain future of ancient art form"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"67\">\n<p>Chinese operas have played on the streets of Thailand&#8217;s capital for hundreds of years. But the digital age and modern entertainment are pulling younger generations away from the traditional performances, prompting concerns about the ancient art form&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>But the manager of the Sai Yong Hong troupe, Thatchai Obthong, refuses to believe the opera will ever close its curtains for good. <\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Scott Heidler reports from Bangkok.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese operas have played on the streets of Thailand&#8217;s capital for hundreds of years. But the digital age and modern entertainment are pulling younger generations away from the traditional performances, prompting concerns about the ancient art form&#8217;s future. But the manager of the Sai Yong Hong troupe, Thatchai Obthong, refuses to believe the opera will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}