{"id":510,"date":"2021-04-14T03:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T03:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/?p=510"},"modified":"2022-05-15T03:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T03:06:01","slug":"it-has-come-to-this-we-now-lie-to-the-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/2021\/04\/14\/it-has-come-to-this-we-now-lie-to-the-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"It has come to this: we now lie to the elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, 14 April, is doubly auspicious for Thailand, a two-in-one special of National Elderly Day and National Family Day.<br><br>On this special day, General Prayut Chan-o-cha delivered a message to the kingdom\u2019s aged population via Deputy Government Spokesperson Rachada Dhnadirek.<br><br>This is an excerpt from his message:<br><br>\u201cThe new COVID-19 situation is easing and moving towards a positive direction. Part of the reason is family love and care, with every Thai family lending a hand in helping the country to come through in a time of crisis.\u201d<br><br>In related news, after hovering just under one thousand new infections for each of the last few days, Thailand today discovers a recorded 1,335 new cases.<br><br>Total infections stand at 35,910 cases, with 28,322 recovered and 97 deaths.<br><br>Hospitals are reporting shortages of beds. Vaccines are still largely unavailable. Lockdowns are looming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 14 April, is doubly auspicious for Thailand, a two-in-one special of National Elderly Day and National Family Day. On this special day, General Prayut Chan-o-cha delivered a message to the kingdom\u2019s aged population via Deputy Government Spokesperson Rachada Dhnadirek. This is an excerpt from his message: \u201cThe new COVID-19 situation is easing and moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,12,14,13],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thisurpt","tag-prayut-chan-o-cha-2","tag-thailand","tag-thisrupt","tag-whatshappeninginthailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}