{"id":117296,"date":"2016-04-01T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=117296"},"modified":"2016-04-01T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:08:01","slug":"parks-to-be-turned-into-cemeteries-to-make-room-for-the-dead-just-an-april-fools-day-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/04\/01\/parks-to-be-turned-into-cemeteries-to-make-room-for-the-dead-just-an-april-fools-day-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks to be turned into cemeteries to make room for the dead &#8212; just an April Fool\u2019s Day prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GCN is happy to report that the story \u201cParks to be turned into cemeteries to make room for the dead\u201d was just our way of having some April Fool\u2019s Day fun.<\/p>\n<p>It is not true and our parks and green spaces are safe for now.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to all who commented and played along with the prank.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the comments we received on Facebook were:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Karen Allan-Grainger<\/strong>: May not be a bad thing, dead people don&#8217;t litter, rob, hijack, murder etc. Parks have been left to ruin and become criminal havens over the years, very very few kids are allowed out alone, let alone to play in a municipal park in the suburbs, they are used as illegal drug dealing, alcohol selling and prostitution areas &#8211; so no great loss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carole Ann Rheinhard:<\/strong> Mine shafts are empty?? And the sea has lots of space and you can be food for the sharks at least be useful in the end&#8230;.xx<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bianca Jansen van Rensburg:<\/strong> If this is true I am totally shocked!!! But then again I know it is the 1st of April so will have to see if this is true or not&#8230;but still shocked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Johan Coertze:<\/strong> <span>Yes and when the parks are full they are going to drain Germiston and Boksburg lakes for more space<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miguel &#8216;Duarte&#8217; Benedito<\/strong>: <span>Ag no man, use the koppies man, ha ha.<\/span><\/p>\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='ff316970209a2dfd3ea91bf29b1f791e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GCN has some April Fool&#8217;s Day fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":117267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[7078,979,969,2734,6588],"class_list":["post-117296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-april-fools-day","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-parks"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["April Fool's Day","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117296","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}