{"id":3295,"date":"2018-03-14T22:03:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T22:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2018-03-14T22:03:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T22:03:15","slug":"wat-rong-khun-the-white-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wat-rong-khun-the-white-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Wat Rong Khun (The White Temple)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many temples across Thailand that it&#8217;s easy to get what many travelers call &#8220;temple fatigue.&#8221; After a while, they just don&#8217;t seem interesting any more. Well, that&#8217;s definitely not the case when you visit\u00a0<strong>Wat Rong Khun<\/strong>\u00a0(<span lang=\"th\" xml:lang=\"th\">\u0e27\u0e31\u0e14\u0e23\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e02\u0e38\u0e48\u0e19<\/span>). More commonly referred to in English as the White Temple, it&#8217;s the\u00a0brainchild of famous Thai artist\u00a0<b>Chalermchai Kositpipat<\/b>\u00a0(<span lang=\"th\" xml:lang=\"th\">\u0e40\u0e09\u0e25\u0e34\u0e21\u0e0a\u0e31\u0e22 \u0e42\u0e06\u0e29\u0e34\u0e15\u0e1e\u0e34\u0e1e\u0e31\u0e12\u0e19\u0e4c<\/span>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_839\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/08\/DSC_0690.jpg\" aria-label=\"DSC 0690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-839\"  alt=\"Wat Rong Khun (The White Temple)\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/08\/DSC_0690.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/08\/DSC_0690.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/08\/DSC_0690-350x234.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The White Temple<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The White Temple is located just outside the city of Chiang Rai. See the highlights of the White Temple in this short video and be sure to add it to your list!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The White Temple (Chiang Rai, Thailand)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BbbcL4lkvIE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/08\/DSC_0690-350x234.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Wat Rong Khun (The White Temple)\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/08\/DSC_0690-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/08\/DSC_0690.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>There are so many temples across Thailand that it&#8217;s easy to get what many travelers call &#8220;temple fatigue.&#8221; After a while, they just don&#8217;t seem interesting any more. Well, that&#8217;s definitely not the case when you visit\u00a0Wat Rong Khun\u00a0(\u0e27\u0e31\u0e14\u0e23\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e02\u0e38\u0e48\u0e19). More commonly referred to in English as the White Temple, it&#8217;s the\u00a0brainchild of famous Thai artist\u00a0Chalermchai&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wat-rong-khun-the-white-temple\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,161,2617],"tags":[9830,480040,10656,94561,94549,275435,373833,275458,480038,94551,94554],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-travel","category-videos","tag-architecture","tag-best-temples-in-thailand","tag-buddhism","tag-buddhist-temple","tag-chiang-rai","tag-northern-thailand","tag-thai-buddhism","tag-thai-temples","tag-thailand-white-temple","tag-wat-rong-khun","tag-white-temple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}