{"id":85235,"date":"2026-08-07T11:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85235"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:22:06","slug":"boy-kills-grandparents-and-then-five-teachers-thai-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/boy-kills-grandparents-and-then-five-teachers-thai-authorities-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Kills Grandparents and Then Five Teachers, Thai Authorities Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-aa8b97-Paragraph-baseStyles-paragraphTreatmentStyles-print evys1bk0\">The boy brandished a handgun on his Instagram account around Songkran, the Thai New Year, which is celebrated every April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-aa8b97-Paragraph-baseStyles-paragraphTreatmentStyles-print evys1bk0\">On Friday, the Thai authorities said, he used the same weapon, which belonged to his grandfather, to kill seven people and inflict fatal injuries on himself. The mass shooting immediately revived a debate about gun laws in the country.\u00a0The boy shot and killed his grandfather and grandmother, with whom he lived, on Friday morning. Then he went to his high school, the Debsirin Nonthaburi School, northwest of Bangkok, and at some point opened fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: The boy brandished a handgun on his Instagram account around Songkran, the Thai New Year,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85236,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85235\/revisions\/85236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}