{"id":2525,"date":"2011-04-16T07:50:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T11:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/2011\/04\/16\/happy-new-year-to-all-of-our-thai-au-pairs-colleagues-and-friends\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T07:50:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T11:50:48","slug":"happy-new-year-to-all-of-our-thai-au-pairs-colleagues-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/2011\/04\/16\/happy-new-year-to-all-of-our-thai-au-pairs-colleagues-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year to all of our Thai au pairs, colleagues and friends,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-505\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/04\/thai-150x150.gif\" alt=\"thai\" width=\"216\" height=\"199\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">\u00a0\u0e2a\u0e07\u0e01\u0e23\u0e32\u0e19\u0e15\u0e4c<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Songkran (\u0e2a\u0e07\u0e01\u0e23\u0e32\u0e19\u0e15\u0e4c) is the traditional Thai New Year water festival which starts on April 13 every year. \u00a0It is a national holiday in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The festival lasts for 4 days. <em>Maha Songkran Day<\/em> is the first day of the celebrations which marks the end of the old year. April 14, Wan Nao is the day between the ending of the old year and the beginning of the New Year when foods are prepared for the temples. The third day of Songkran, April 15, is <em>Wan Thaloeng Sok<\/em> &#8211; the day on which the New Year begins and on the last day, <em>Wan Parg-bpee<\/em>, the ancestors and elders are honored.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Happy Songkran everyone!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Read more about this special holiday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiff.com\/home_life\/holiday\/thai-songkran.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chiff.com\/home_life\/holiday\/thai-songkran.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u0e2a\u0e07\u0e01\u0e23\u0e32\u0e19\u0e15\u0e4c Songkran (\u0e2a\u0e07\u0e01\u0e23\u0e32\u0e19\u0e15\u0e4c) is the traditional Thai New Year water festival which starts on April 13 every year. \u00a0It is a national holiday in Thailand. The festival lasts for 4 days. Maha Songkran Day is the first day of the celebrations which marks the end of the old year. April 14, Wan Nao is the  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/2011\/04\/16\/happy-new-year-to-all-of-our-thai-au-pairs-colleagues-and-friends\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[157,300,304,307,465,468,469,492,496,515],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cultural-care","tag-live-in-childcare-long-island","tag-long-island-au-pair","tag-long-island-childcare","tag-suffolk-county-au-pair","tag-suffolk-county-babysitters","tag-suffolk-county-childcare","tag-tahi-au-pairs","tag-thai-new-year","tag-trusted-childcare"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy New Year to all of our Thai au pairs, colleagues and friends, - Cindy&#039;s Suffolk Au Pairs News Bulletin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy New Year to all of our Thai au pairs, colleagues and friends, - Cindy&#039;s Suffolk Au Pairs News Bulletin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0\u0e2a\u0e07\u0e01\u0e23\u0e32\u0e19\u0e15\u0e4c Songkran (\u0e2a\u0e07\u0e01\u0e23\u0e32\u0e19\u0e15\u0e4c) is the traditional Thai New Year water festival which starts on April 13 every year. \u00a0It is a national holiday in Thailand. 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