{"id":107339,"date":"2015-12-31T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107339\/juicy-tidbits-ringing-in-the-new-year\/"},"modified":"2015-12-07T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T07:48:04","slug":"juicy-tidbits-ringing-in-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2015\/12\/31\/juicy-tidbits-ringing-in-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Juicy Tidbits \u2013 Ringing in the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year is almost over.<\/p>\n<p>While we busy ourselves getting all our holiday plans together ,our focus shifts to how we will bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When I was younger I would go to my grandparents&#8217; bowling club to dance the night away, a tradition they still uphold today.<\/p>\n<p>In recent year\u2019s we have rung in the New Year in Mozambique, with my husband\u2019s family, which usually includes a big dinner followed by a beach party, ending with an informal fireworks display at midnight.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I wanted to find out how other people spend their New Year\u2019s Eve, in the hope that it would inspire my own plans.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Julie Truter: \u201cWe have a huge get together, with family and friends and eat.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Jordan: \u201cWe have a family braai, where we spend as much time as possible in the pool.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Izahn van Huyssteen: \u201cShouting Happy New Year three seconds before midnight and throwing everyone off &#8212; just joking, we spend the day with family.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Angelica Bilro: \u201cOn New Year\u2019s Eve we have a big lamb dinner and on New Year\u2019s Day we make shortbread with a coin in it, an old Greek tradition.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However you choose to ring in the New Year, be safe and responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year, and all the best for 2016.<\/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='66040d92b67e4da93b96ba55ba558a78'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":107340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8518,509,6],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-107339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-editors-note","category-opinion-edition","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":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Blogs"},"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\/107339","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=107339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}