Like Atlas, the Greek Titan condemned by Zeus to bear the weight of the heavens on his shoulders for eternity, this incredible sculpture found in Ko Thai, a new Thai restaurant on Magnolia Avenue, portrays a man bearing the weight of this two-story restaurant\u2019s second floor on his shoulders.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of course, unlike Greek mythology, this is not necessarily an ode to a religious figure within the Thai culture, where Theravada Buddhism is the dominant religion \u2014 practiced by over 90% of Thailand\u2019s population, according to the Association of Religion. To put this in perspective, the dominant religion within the U.S., Christianity, is practiced by 62% of the nation\u2019s population, according to a 2025 Pew Research Poll. Ko Thai, which opened this year, was named one of our magazine\u2019s\u00a0Best New Restaurants<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Photo by Thanin Viriyaki –\u00a0@severus_snapshot<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like Atlas, the Greek Titan condemned by Zeus to bear the weight of the heavens on his shoulders…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":455759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,12043,38699,7371,7372,9730,37937,60997,988,5921,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-455758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arts-and-culture","10":"tag-best-new-restaurants","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-fwtx-staff","14":"tag-magnolia-avenue","15":"tag-photo-of-the-month","16":"tag-restaurants","17":"tag-style","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-top-story","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115741175689724077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}