{"id":691,"date":"2026-05-11T04:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:23:26","slug":"former-thai-pm-thaksin-shinawatra-released-from-prison-on-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra released from prison on parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released from prison on parole on Monday after serving eight months of a reduced sentence tied to corruption charges. His return to public life marks another chapter in a political saga that has dominated and deeply divided Thailand for nearly two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released from prison on parole on Monday after serving eight months of a reduced sentence tied to corruption charges. His return to public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=691\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}