{"id":128692,"date":"2016-07-24T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/128692\/a-fun-look-at-electricity-outages\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:35:28","slug":"a-fun-look-at-electricity-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/24\/a-fun-look-at-electricity-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"A fun look at electricity outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cubs from the First Germiston Cub Pack need to work hard towards attaining all their badges.<\/p>\n<p>To this end Crystal Marais (9), who is working towards her Gold Wolf Advancement badge, had to write a song or a poem and share it with the rest of the pack.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>She came up with a poem about the constant electricity outages in Germiston and her Cub leaders enjoyed it so much they wanted to share it.<\/p>\n<p>The poem is entitled \u201cNo Electricity\u201d and reads as follows:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen the lights went out,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dog started to pout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMommy started to cry,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause she couldn\u2019t get her hair dry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone started to rush around,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the candles were finally found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad put the gas stove on,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the kettle began steaming a song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone started falling asleep,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that night was no more bleak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The First Germiston Cubs (ages seven to 11) run on a Tuesday from 5.30pm to 7pm, while the Scouts (ages 11 to 18) run on a Thursday from 6.30pm to 8.30pm during government school terms.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more contact Bronwyn Lyndon on 079 127 3502.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126214\/top-badge-for-cub\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top badge for Cub<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/128507\/youngster-works-hard-for-her-badge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Youngster works hard for her badge<\/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='f0cedde6adff71bf167c4ff1266633ce'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the Cubs have to make sure they do certain tasks, they have great fun along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":128802,"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":[11775,2696,1373,11461,979,969,2734,11806],"class_list":["post-128692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-badge","tag-cubs","tag-electricity","tag-first-germiston-cubs","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-poem"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["badge","cubs","electricity","First Germiston Cubs","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128692","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=128692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}