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        "msgid": "thais-to-wash-away-awful-year-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-11-15 00:00:00",
        "title": "Thais to wash away awful year",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Thais to wash away awful year BANGKOK (AFP): Thais hoped to wash away their year's misfortunes in a special festival yesterday after enduring the country's worst economic slump in decades. Tens of thousands of people would launch banana leaves laden with candles -- and sometime hair and nail clippings -- onto the country's waterways later yesterday to celebrate the Loy Krathong festival.",
        "content": "<p>Thais to wash away awful year<\/p>\n<p>BANGKOK (AFP): Thais hoped to wash away their year's<br>\nmisfortunes in a special festival yesterday after enduring the<br>\ncountry's worst economic slump in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people would launch banana leaves laden<br>\nwith candles -- and sometime hair and nail clippings -- onto the<br>\ncountry's waterways later yesterday to celebrate the Loy Krathong<br>\nfestival.<\/p>\n<p>The traditional Thai event is held annually to cleanse<br>\nparticipants of their year's troubles and to pay tribute to the<br>\nwater, a crucial element of social and religious life here.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people line the banks of rivers and canals across<br>\nthe country to see the flickering floats go by, hopefully taking<br>\nwith them the misfortunes of the person who launched the<br>\n\"krathong\".<\/p>",
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