{"id":49840,"date":"2016-05-17T15:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T19:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=49840"},"modified":"2016-05-17T15:01:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T19:01:26","slug":"idyllic-thai-island-koh-tachai-closed-indefinitely-due-to-damage-from-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2016\/05\/idyllic-thai-island-koh-tachai-closed-indefinitely-due-to-damage-from-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Idyllic Thai island Koh Tachai closed indefinitely due to damage from tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/05\/17\/travel\/thailand-koh-tachai-island-closed\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160517071953-02-thailand-beach-closure-exlarge-1691.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tunya Nethithammakul, director general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, told CNN Tuesday that the island had been closed to visitors &#8220;indefinitely,&#8221; due to the severe deterioration of its ecosystem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The problems included litter and food waste, gasoline from tour boats leaching into the water and damage to coral, he said, adding that overwhelming numbers of tourists were to blame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read Full Article=&gt;\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/05\/17\/travel\/thailand-koh-tachai-island-closed\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Idyllic Thai island Koh Tachai closed indefinitely due to damage from tourism &#8211; CNN.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunya Nethithammakul, director general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, told CNN Tuesday that the island had been closed to visitors &#8220;indefinitely,&#8221; due to the severe deterioration of its ecosystem. The problems included litter and food waste, gasoline from tour boats leaching into the water and damage to coral, he said,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22,18],"tags":[859,2046,2047],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49840"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49840"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49848,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49840\/revisions\/49848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}