{"id":11316,"date":"2022-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/?p=11316"},"modified":"2022-02-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T00:00:00","slug":"koktail-conversation-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/th\/2022\/02\/21\/koktail-conversation-episode-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Koktail Conversations: Episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For episode two of our podcast, Nigel Oakins ventured out to the 61st floor of the Lebua hotel to meet with CEO Deepak Ohri and get the low down on \u201cemotive expression\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Available on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yiRvTtFPFsI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3DyiRvTtFPFsI&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1644890711490000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0vEhIRZLcjS9pG5elTeVF8\">YouTube<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2JIRQaurOuTsl0up5UYomG?si=d1e5bbfdc4c8440f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/71cGI3kHUlsqdLXxb3zkPp&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1644890711490000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1wIClR_ydeAxgoZcih5NUB\">Spotify<\/a>, the second episode of&nbsp;Koktail Conversations&nbsp;is now out. 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In it,&nbsp;Koktail founder Nigel Oakins sits down for a wide-ranging discussion on Thailand&rsquo;s place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Koktail Conversations: Episode 2<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For episode two of our podcast, Nigel Oakins ventured out to the 61st floor of the Lebua hotel to meet with CEO Deepak Ohri and get the low down on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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