{"id":779,"date":"2026-10-21T14:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/?p=779"},"modified":"2026-10-21T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:00:22","slug":"wat-chalong-wat-chaithararam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/%e0%b8%a0%e0%b8%b9%e0%b9%80%e0%b8%81%e0%b9%87%e0%b8%95\/wat-chalong-wat-chaithararam\/","title":{"rendered":"Wat Chalong (Wat Chaithararam)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5e031c9341dd5-1024x631.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5e031c9341dd5-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5e031c9341dd5-767x473.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5e031c9341dd5-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5e031c9341dd5-1536x947.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5e031c9341dd5.jpg 1799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>History &amp; Background:<\/strong> Built during the reign of King Rama III, the temple is deeply tied to <strong>Luang Pho Cham<\/strong> and <strong>Luang Pho Chuang<\/strong>, revered monk leaders who helped unify and heal local villagers during the Ang Yi (tin miner rebellion) uprisings in 1876.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Significance:<\/strong> The temple complex houses the <strong>Phra Mahathat Chedi<\/strong>, a grand pagoda enshrining a sacred relic of the Lord Buddha brought from Sri Lanka. It remains the most important and sacred Buddhist temple in Phuket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History &amp; Background: Built during the reign of King Rama III, the temple is deeply tied to Luang Pho Cham &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosemarystay.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}