{"id":25837,"date":"2016-05-18T16:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/one-of-thailands-most-beautiful-islands-is-closing-before-its-ruined-forever"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:48:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:48:53","slug":"one-of-thailands-most-beautiful-islands-is-closing-before-its-ruined-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/one-of-thailands-most-beautiful-islands-is-closing-before-its-ruined-forever","title":{"rendered":"One of Thailand\u2019s most beautiful islands is closing before it\u2019s ruined forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-of-thailands-most-beautiful-islands-is-closing-before-its-ruined-forever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This story originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4336737\/thailand-island-koh-tachai-similan-phangnga-ranong-tourism-travelers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Time.com\">Time.com<\/a><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An idyllic Thai island has been so despoiled by tourists that local authorities are being forced to close it to prevent further damage.<\/p>\n<p>Koh Tachai in Thailand\u2019s Ranong Province was rated last year by specialist website beachmeter.com as <a href=\"http:\/\/beachmeter.com\/thailands-most-beautiful-island\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thailand\u2019s most beautiful island<\/a>. However, according to the <em>Bangkok Post<\/em>, the tourist-ravaged beaches of Koh Tachai will have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/news\/general\/975145\/koh-tachai-island-off-phangnga-closed-indefinitely\" target=\"_blank\">close indefinitely<\/a> from Oct. 15.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/travel-tips\/thailand-island-koh-tachai-similan-phangnga-ranong-closed?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_tl\">http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/travel-tips\/thailand-island-...acebook_tl<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story originally appeared on Time.com. An idyllic Thai island has been so despoiled by tourists that local authorities are being forced to close it to prevent further damage. Koh Tachai in Thailand\u2019s Ranong Province was rated last year by specialist website beachmeter.com as Thailand\u2019s most beautiful island. However, according to the Bangkok Post, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50460,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837\/revisions\/50460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}