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Wat Sattha Dhamma | Alto, GA<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Random Notes: Like most Lao things, humble beginnings on this one as well, but there aren’t many\u00a0times in America these days where you can witness an old\u00a0timey barn raising, people pulling together to build something.\u00a0 Time will tell if this becomes a Lao “Bonnaroo” field, and more complaints from the neighbors, but hey, I didn’t hammer a single nail or lay down a single brick, so I’ll just hush up.\u00a0 …Especially since my parents and the community back home seem intent on really trying to make it work.\u00a0 Been meaning to show the other side of all these festivals and gatherings…but you know, I think I’d rather not.\u00a0 Get so much flak from other people, my goal is to still put our best foot forward.\u00a0 Whatever photos go up, they still\u00a0wouldn’t tell the viewer that most of the community works in textile mills and chicken factories.\u00a0 No doctors or lawyers funding the stones for this one, just regular old country folk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wat Sattha Dhamma | Alto, GA Random Notes: Like most Lao things, humble beginnings on this one as well, but there aren’t many\u00a0times in America these days where you can witness an old\u00a0timey barn raising, people pulling together to build something.\u00a0 Time will tell if this becomes a Lao “Bonnaroo” field, and more complaints from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,359,7],"tags":[202,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-3960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-lao-culture","8":"category-lao-thai-khmer-new-year","9":"category-photos","10":"tag-event-photography","11":"tag-lao-new-year","13":"post-with-thumbnail","14":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t