{"id":47,"date":"2008-11-13T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2010-11-25T11:07:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T04:07:55","slug":"kratongs-go-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/kratongs-go-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Kratongs go green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/uploaded_images\/bread-kratong-08-741792.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/uploaded_images\/bread-kratong-08-741774.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>While there there were still mostly foam and banana tree bast kratongs, the bread kratongs made a strong showing and hopefully are here to stay.  Lets hope birds and fish will find them edible, and they will dissapear nicely into the bellies of living things.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, what&#8217;s with the kratong robbers?  Young boys and girls who molest just floated kratongs looking for coins?  Waiting till the kratong is out of site is one thing. But to have my kratong molested 10 feet from where I am standing&#8230; Hmm. Poor form.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=loy+krathong+2008&amp;as=1&amp;and_queries=loy+krathong+2008&amp;exact_query=&amp;or_queries=&amp;negative_queries=&amp;geo_name=thailand&amp;geo_latlong=&amp;search_duration=&amp;search_hl=&amp;search_category_type=all&amp;search_sort=&amp;uploaded=w\">YouTube&#8217;s collection of this year&#8217;s Loy Kratong videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there there were still mostly foam and banana tree bast kratongs, the bread kratongs made a strong showing and hopefully are here to stay. Lets hope birds and fish will find them edible, and they will dissapear nicely into the bellies of living things. On another note, what&#8217;s with the kratong robbers? 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