{"id":2890,"date":"2016-04-19T00:06:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/thailand-treats-these-life-size-dolls-like-real-children-this-woman-is-their-mother\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T00:06:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:06:50","slug":"thailand-treats-these-life-size-dolls-like-real-children-this-woman-is-their-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/thailand-treats-these-life-size-dolls-like-real-children-this-woman-is-their-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand treats these life-size dolls like real children. This woman is their mother."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mananya Boonmi scrolls through the thousands of photos on her phone with the mile-wide smile of a proud mother. Every now and again she stops scrolling to show off a photo with one of her “children.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was when he was 4,\u201d she says as she hands over a picture of her holding Nong Pet (Diamond). \u201cI\u2019ve put a new body on him since then.\u201d Motionless in her lap, Nong Pet sits bejeweled in a fine white dress, Boonmi happily caressing his arms.<\/p>\n

Nong Pet is 5 years old, 2 feet tall and a \u2018Luk Thep\u2019 \u2014 literally, Child Angel \u2014 doll. He\u2019s also just one doll of thousands in the latest Thai craze that recently enraptured, and then exasperated, large swathes of Thai people. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Thailand<\/a>, Us World<\/a>, Pics<\/a>, Dolls<\/a>, and Photo Stories<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mananya Boonmi scrolls through the thousands of photos on her phone with the mile-wide smile of a proud mother. Every now and again she stops scrolling to show off a photo with one of her “children.” \u201cThis was when he … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2132,1150,754,2071,732],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-dolls","tag-photo-stories","tag-pics","tag-thailand","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}