{"id":5847,"date":"2024-12-24T11:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T11:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=5847"},"modified":"2024-12-24T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T11:26:32","slug":"christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=5847","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I slept well, and I slept in. The hotel does have a breakfast cafe, but I went elsewhere because it was pretty late by the time I was functional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I regret none of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have to relate some sad news. Thailand does not have a good mocha game. Best I’ve had was at a Starbucks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is, without a doubt, the most refined weed dispensary I’ve ever seen <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My thing for today\u00b9 was to visit a sort of art gallery or exhibition space; Kalm Village. A lot of traditional, or derived from traditional, art & design in a very tranquil space. In an odd moment, an Australian woman asked if I thought the shirt she was planning to buy would fit; Not sure I’ve ever been asked for clothing advice by a total stranger before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b9 I try to do something<\/em> each day, even if it’s just “sit in a park and read a book”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not much risk of this here; The only cheese I’ve seen is in 7-11 prepackaged toasties or on burgers\/nachos from “western food” restaurants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dinner was at a place nearby billing itself as an English country-style pub, which seems to mean accommodation, and a combined restaurant & sports bar. But they did a good chicken+cashews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I slept well, and I slept in. The hotel does have a breakfast cafe, but I went elsewhere because it was pretty late by the time I was functional. I regret none of this. My thing for today\u00b9 was to visit a sort of art gallery or exhibition space; Kalm Village. A lot of traditional, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[94],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-5847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sabbatical","tag-chiang-mai"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-1wj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}