{"id":117881,"date":"2016-04-12T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/117881\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topic-6\/"},"modified":"2016-04-12T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T05:56:08","slug":"have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topic-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/04\/12\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topic-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Have your say on this week\u2019s hot Facebook topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hot topic of conversation on the Germiston City News Facebook page for the week, April 2 to 8, was:<\/p>\n<p>Parks to be turned into cemeteries to make room for the dead: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/1072163439503027\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1S72Tgf<\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Germiston City News joined in the April Fool\u2019s Day fun with a story of our own: \u201cDo you enjoy walking your dog in a park near your home, or spending time there with your family? Well enjoy this while you can as soon all parks in Ekurhuleni will be utilised as cemeteries. The metro has been steadily running out of space to accommodate the dead for a number of years and has hit upon the idea of turning parks and green spaces into the final resting places of its residents.\u201d The article was identified as an April Fool\u2019s joke later in the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You said:<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Karen Allan-Grainger, \u201cMay not be a bad thing, dead people don\u2019t 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 \u2013 so no great loss.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Carole Ann Rheinhard, \u201cMine 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.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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='0830f9362bebfe52457bab2aeb89b2e6'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the conversation with the hot topic on Facebook this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":117882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-117881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","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\/117881","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=117881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}