{"id":112,"date":"2007-04-21T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev.local\/?p=112"},"modified":"2022-02-21T18:39:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T07:39:23","slug":"more-moped-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"More Moped Peril"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Decided to use my legs today, and walked the 12 km or so from my bungalow near&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandresor.se\/samui\/koh_phangan_map-karta.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thong Sala (south west) to Haad Rin (south east)<\/a>. Nice walk but the heat was intense so decided to get a&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moped\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">moped&nbsp;<\/a>taxi back. Ran into another reason why, especially on Phangan, hiring a bike can be a bad move! Shit I&#8217;ve only been here a little over a month and already I&#8217;ve witnessed 2 accidents and seen the results of numerous others!<br>Arguably taking photos of the accident is in poor taste, but I wanted to share the reality of what can and does happen all too often over here and usually only to&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Farang\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">farang<\/a>!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" style=\"float:left; margin-right: 20px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/yumamino_main_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/DSC00113.preview.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/yumamino_main_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/DSC00113.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" style=\"float:left; margin-right: 20px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/yumamino_main_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/DSC00114.preview.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/yumamino_main_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/DSC00114.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/yumamino_main_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/DSC00115.preview.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/yumamino_main_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/DSC00115.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to use my legs today, and walked the 12 km or so from my bungalow near&nbsp;Thong Sala (south west) to Haad Rin (south east). Nice walk but the heat was intense so decided to get a&nbsp;moped&nbsp;taxi back. Ran into another reason why, especially on Phangan, hiring a bike can be a bad move! Shit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/?p=112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Moped Peril&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yumamino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}