{"id":121595,"date":"2016-05-15T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/121595\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topic-8\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T10:19:26","slug":"have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topic-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/15\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topic-8\/","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, May 7 to 13, was:<\/p>\n<p>Power out again: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/1095719967147374\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ZMhIUD<\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Last Tuesday, many suburbs in Germiston were once again left without power. The Germiston City News was made aware of the problem, and attempted several times to get comment from the metro as to the cause of the outage and when power would be restored.<\/p>\n<p>You said:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Riana De Jesus, \u201cElspark has had no power since 11.30pm last night, still no power. Cable theft. Jet Park also no power just after 9am this morning, don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Anita Sloane, \u201cWhen I phoned at 9.30am this morning to report Tedstoneville Extension One. They were not aware \u2014 so got no answer as to what the problem is this time.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Nadine Osner Garcia, \u201cWilbart is still also without power. We are a manufacturing suburb (only companies here) and our ability to produce products on time is becoming near impossible with the weekly power failures. It is severely affecting the way we operate and our turnover.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Bobby Hutton, \u201cIt has become an absolute joke with the \u201cpowers\u201d that be\u2026no idea what they are doing, or supposed to be doing.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more comments read \u201cNo answers from metro yet again as residents sit in the dark\u201d: <a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/121261\/no-answers-from-metro-yet-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1TatxlL<\/a><\/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='b4f723caa6bb95c21d727ae8ef253071'><\/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":121596,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-121595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/121595","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=121595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}