{"id":100345,"date":"2015-09-24T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=100345"},"modified":"2015-09-23T10:09:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T08:09:33","slug":"happy-heritage-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/2015\/09\/24\/happy-heritage-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Heritage Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, there has been an initiative to celebrate these shared cultures by braaing, and Heritage Day is often synonymously called Braai Day.<br \/>\nThe idea is that when people gather around a fire to cook, eat and spend time with each other, the simple notion of togetherness is played out.<br \/>\nHere are a few ideas on how to spend Heritage day:<br \/>\n* Celebrate your personal heritage. South Africa is made up of widely diverse cultures. This Heritage Day why not reconnect with your ancestry.<br \/>\n* Have a braai with your family and friends. A braai is a must on Heritage Day. Braais are all about sharing good food with good company.<br \/>\n* Check out some heritage sites. South Africa has many natural and cultural sites that are protected because of their important heritage properties.<br \/>\nThese are just a few ideas how to spend your Heritage Day and many people also choose to see what is happening in their local community.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='bf4c091f289da5f1ce477a390d884204'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Day was officially recognised as a public holiday in 1996 by former president Nelson Mandela, who said that it is South Africa\u2019s varied and shared cultures which make the country great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":100348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3686,8097],"tags":[1744,2362],"class_list":["post-100345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-news","category-lifestyle-and-health","tag-heritage-day","tag-south-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Lifestyle and Health"},"tag_labels":["heritage day","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}