{"id":481784,"date":"2025-04-14T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/?p=481784"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:04:23","slug":"bma-hosts-alms-giving-and-water-pouring-ceremonies-to-mark-songkran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/?p=481784","title":{"rendered":"BMA hosts alms-giving and water-pouring ceremonies to mark Songkran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/S__93020291_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-481785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/S__93020291_0.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/S__93020291_0-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/S__93020291_0-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>(April 13, 2025) \u2013 Chadchart Sittipunt, Governor of Bangkok, presided over a merit-making ceremony in which alms were offered to 68 monks to mark the Songkran festival 2025.<br>Following the alms-giving, the Governor of Bangkok also led a traditional water-pouring ceremony, during which 20 senior citizens gave their blessings. This ritual aims to encourage Thai people to express gratitude and respect towards their elders.<br>Souvenirs were also presented to the elderly participants at a tent located at Lan Khon Mueang Square, in front of Bangkok City Hall (Sao Chingcha), Phra Nakhon District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Executives, civil servants, and officials from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) also took part in the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BMA #Bangkok #almsgiving #waterpouring #senior #traditionalceremony #Songkran #ThaiNewYear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(April 13, 2025) \u2013 Chadchart Sittipunt, Governor of Ban &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/?p=481784\" class=\"more-link\">\u0e2d\u0e48\u0e32\u0e19\u0e40\u0e1e\u0e34\u0e48\u0e21\u0e40\u0e15\u0e34\u0e21<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BMA hosts alms-giving and water-pouring ceremonies to mark Songkran&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":481787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eng0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481795,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481784\/revisions\/481795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/481787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}