{"id":180543,"date":"2025-10-03T19:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=180543"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:56:21","slug":"thaksins-prison-term-adds-new-twist-to-thailands-political-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=180543","title":{"rendered":"Thaksin\u2019s prison term adds new twist to Thailand\u2019s political saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loved and loathed in almost equal measure, Thaksin Shinawatra transformed Thai politics in the early 2000s with populist policies that won him and his party loyalty from the rural masses. He launched his political party, Thai Rak Thai, in 1998, and became the\u2026<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/world-news\/thaksins-prison-term-adds-new-twist-to-thailands-political-saga\/articleshow\/123779421.cms\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loved and loathed in almost equal measure, Thaksin Shinawatra transformed Thai politics in the early<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180543-thaksins-prison-term-adds-new-twist-to-thailands-political-saga.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180543-thaksins-prison-term-adds-new-twist-to-thailands-political-saga-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180543-thaksins-prison-term-adds-new-twist-to-thailands-political-saga-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180543-thaksins-prison-term-adds-new-twist-to-thailands-political-saga-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180543-thaksins-prison-term-adds-new-twist-to-thailands-political-saga-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180543-thaksins-prison-term-adds-new-twist-to-thailands-political-saga.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180543-thaksins-prison-term-adds-new-twist-to-thailands-political-saga.jpg",1200,630,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180543-thaksins-prison-term-adds-new-twist-to-thailands-political-saga-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180543-thaksins-prison-term-adds-new-twist-to-thailands-political-saga-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180543-thaksins-prison-term-adds-new-twist-to-thailands-political-saga-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/180544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}