{"id":903,"date":"2010-03-06T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/2010\/03\/06\/penang-bangkok\/"},"modified":"2010-03-06T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T16:40:15","slug":"penang-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Penang -> Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I took the ferry from Penang back to Butterworth and had a quick lunch with a guy named &#8216;So&#8217; who I met on the ferry.\u00a0 We took a taxi to a dim sum place that was highly rated on &#8216;wikitravel&#8217; but not especially good.\u00a0 On the one hand I realize that it&#8217;s a wiki, so restaurants can rate themselves.\u00a0 This didn&#8217;t strike me as a very tech-savvy operation though.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/so.jpg\" alt=\"so.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/butterworthdimsum.jpg\" alt=\"butterworthdimsum.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After lunch, a 24-hour train ride to Bangkok.\u00a0 I was a bit worried that I wouldn&#8217;t get a window seat, but it turns out that in 2nd class they&#8217;re all window seats.\u00a0 Part of my space was occupied by another traveler&#8217;s baggage, but there was still plenty of room.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/penangtobangkok1.jpg\" alt=\"penangtobangkok1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were a lot more great shanties in the last bit of Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/penangtobangkok2.jpg\" alt=\"penangtobangkok2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/penangtobangkok3.jpg\" alt=\"penangtobangkok3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My sleeping berth was a bit cozy.\u00a0 I guess it pays to reserve early and get a lower, wider bed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/penangtobangkok4.jpg\" alt=\"penangtobangkok4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/penangtobangkok5.jpg\" alt=\"penangtobangkok5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By morning we were well into Thailand.\u00a0 There were lots of rice paddies,\u00a0 lots of shorebirds wading around in the paddies, and lots of things that were on fire (not pictured).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/paddie.jpg\" alt=\"paddie.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I took the ferry from Penang back to Butterworth and had a quick lunch with a guy named &#8216;So&#8217; who I met on the ferry.\u00a0 We took a taxi to a dim sum place that was highly rated on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=903\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}