{"id":39240,"date":"2019-05-05T01:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T01:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39240"},"modified":"2019-05-05T01:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T01:22:42","slug":"thailands-new-king-puts-on-7-kg-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39240","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s new King puts on 7 kg crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"52\">\n<p>It&#8217;s 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Thai capital Bangkok today, but there are still small crowds braving the heat to watch the country&#8217;s first coronation in 69 years.<\/p>\n<p>Many watched on large screens around the Grand Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Chalermpan Rangsriman, a 62-year-old retiree, arrived outside the Grand Palace early in the morning, despite being feeling ill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to see this event. Now we have a full King the country will be better. This ceremony is an auspicious thing to see. I am so proud of it,&#8221; he told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why I am here, even though it&#8217;s extremely hot and I&#8217;m not feeling well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jinthanart Unjai, 66, arrived at around 11 a.m. in the morning. She says she almost cried, as the event reminded her of the King&#8217;s late father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who was widely beloved and revered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am still thinking of the late king. I\u2019m so proud of our tradition,&#8221; she told CNN. \u201cThis is the first time in my life to see (this). I am so excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<p>Jinthanart Unjai, right, arrived to watch the ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"b2e512cf\">Jinthanart Unjai, right, arrived to watch the ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday morning. <span><span>CNN<\/span><\/span><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Marn Thongkum, a 44-year-old civil servant from northeastern Nakhon Ratchasima Province, came to Bangkok last night especially to see the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important day. I had to come see,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel so happy. I am grateful to have new king now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like many others in Thailand, it was Marn&#8217;s first time seeing a coronation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is Thailand,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We need to have king.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Thai capital Bangkok today, but there are still small crowds braving the heat to watch the country&#8217;s first coronation in 69 years. Many watched on large screens around the Grand Palace. Chalermpan Rangsriman, a 62-year-old retiree, arrived outside the Grand Palace early in the morning, despite&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39240","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=39240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}