{"id":104737,"date":"2015-11-16T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/104737\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-topic-6\/"},"modified":"2015-11-16T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T06:59:10","slug":"have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-topic-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/16\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-topic-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Have your say on this week\u2019s hot topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hot topics of conversation on the Germiston City News Facebook page for the week, November 7 to 13, were:<\/p>\n<p>1. Metro responds to water outage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/991644494221589\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1WVR3lS<\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>As temperatures continue to soar, many residents in Germiston have been left without water. The GCN contacted the metro to get some clarity on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>You said:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Denise Malan: \u201cFunny the article says those who don\u2019t have water will have by 11th, what a load of rubbish today is the 12th and still nothing.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. Relatives urged to collect corpses from hospital: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/991932607526111\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1Ldg8Sx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loved ones deserve dignified burials. Unclaimed corpses remain at the Bertha Gxowa Hospital\u2019s mortuary with nobody coming forward to claim them. Family members and friends are urged to come forward and claim their loved one\u2019s body, as pauper burials will be arranged should the corpses remain unclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>You said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Luzaane Lombard: \u201cTruly sad surely someone knew these souls, a friend, family or neighbours? Hope they receive a proper burial soon.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Karen Allan-Grainger: \u201cThis is so sad, more than likely some of these relatives either don\u2019t live here or can barely afford to feed themselves (many living in informal settlements) let alone pay for a burial &#8211; desperately sad.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<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='1ee0c7b3d366101e47be4b32291d7833'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the conversation with the hot topics on Facebook this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":104739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-104737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104737","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}