{"id":380,"date":"2009-12-06T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2017-09-13T13:32:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T17:32:25","slug":"the-monkey-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/the-monkey-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monkey Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPlanet of the Apes\u201d is a movie that comes to mind when you visit Lopburi, Thailand. \u00a0Humans are slaves to these beasts. Monkeys rule this town. \u00a0They roam around the town and even climb on the apartments and the phone wires. \u00a0On the last weekend of November, eight of us planned a trip to Lopburi, which is a city about an hour and half away from Suphanburi. \u00a0You go to lopburi because of the monkeys that live there. \u00a0There is a temple located in the city where all the monkeys hang out. \u00a0We\u00a0all arrived at the temple and were taking pictures of all the monkeys walking around. \u00a0All was good hanging out with the monkeys. \u00a0We did not harm the monkeys and the monkeys did not harm us. \u00a0Life was pretty good there in the beginning. \u00a0I was taking pictures of the monkeys and they were find with that. \u00a0One of them grew a pair and jumped on me, but they jumped right off. \u00a0The first one jumped and was on me for maybe 10 seconds. \u00a0Nothing wrong with that. \u00a0The monkeys were grabbing my hair and trying to get into my camera bag. \u00a0I was kneeling taking some pics when a monkey jumped on me. \u00a0That little monkey swiped at my sunglasses. \u00a0I usually wear my regular glasses underneath my sunglasses, so I am still able to see when I walk around. \u00a0This monkey knocked my sunglasses off. \u00a0My regular glasses were not on my face so I just assumed that they were on the ground. \u00a0I look down and they were not there.<\/p>\n

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I turn to Anna and ask her, \u201cYou see my glasses anywhere?\u201d \u00a0I look up and see my glasses being taken away by a monkey. \u00a0Another monkey swooped in and took my sunglasses. \u00a0I could not believe it. \u00a0Anna and I both start chasing the two across the temple. \u00a0The one with my glasses started to climb up higher. \u00a0Anna went after the other monkey and I guess eventually dropped my sunglasses because I have those now. \u00a0All you see is that monkey chomping on my glasses. \u00a0All of sudden a lens tumbles down to the ground and I grabbed it. \u00a0That is all I have of my glasses. \u00a0I was sulking close to the temple where of course all the monkeys are. \u00a0One jumped on me and we were just hanging out. \u00a0This money was biting my hair and picking at my mustache. \u00a0It really loved my hair. \u00a0At one point there was 4 monkeys on me. \u00a0I was there jungle gym for about 5 minutes. \u00a0Everyone was taking pictures of me. \u00a0I was the one on display. \u00a0Then one of them started to actually bite with teeth, so that is when I had to start kicking the monkeys off of me. \u00a0I really enjoyed myself and even though I started to smell like a monkey by the end of the day, it was still fun. \u00a0I guess now I will always have a story to tell about my glasses. If you want to check out a video of the monkeys and myself go here. <\/strong> http:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/the-monkey-festival-part-ii\/<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cPlanet of the Apes\u201d is a movie that comes to mind when you visit Lopburi, Thailand. \u00a0Humans are slaves to these beasts. Monkeys rule this town. \u00a0They roam around the town and even climb on the apartments and the phone wires. \u00a0On the last weekend of November, eight of us planned a trip to Lopburi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}