{"id":142773,"date":"2017-01-24T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142773\/community-supports-elsburg-family\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T16:52:20","slug":"community-supports-elsburg-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/24\/community-supports-elsburg-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Community supports Elsburg family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a <a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142631\/little-boy-3-dies-in-tragic-house-fire-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">horrific house fire in van der Merwe Street<\/a>, in Elsburg, on Friday, which claimed the life of a three-year-old boy, the community took to social media to offer their condolences to the family.<\/p>\n<p>Germiston residents shared their heartache with the family and offered them support.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Some of the comments on Facebook were:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shirean Martin: What a tragedy, RIP little one, drove past that house when it happened, very, very, very, very sad indeed. My heart goes out to the family and my thoughts and prayers are with you.<\/li>\n<li>Debbie Panaino: Condolences to the family, may God be with you all. Rest in peace little angel.<\/li>\n<li>Lizelle Strydom Rood: Very, very sad day for Elsburg. RIP little one. God please hold these parents tight.<\/li>\n<li>Louise Botha Bezuidenhout: So hartseer, my hart is stukkend vir die familie.<\/li>\n<li>Charne de Lange: Rus sag engelkind.<\/li>\n<li>Brett Robbert Theron: Condolences to the family, may his soul rest in peace.<\/li>\n<li>Werner Nel: Shocking and sad news.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><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='33832f6a7a16a85b2aa48318535650c6'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People took to social media to give their condolences to family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":142678,"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":[7805,1318,1611,1187,1128,979,969,7403,2734,3807,1504,13501],"class_list":["post-142773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-dems","tag-elsburg","tag-emergency-services","tag-facebook","tag-fire","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-house-fire","tag-melissa-hart","tag-social-media","tag-support","tag-sympathy"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["DEMS","elsburg","emergency services","facebook","fire","germiston","germiston city news","house fire","melissa hart","social media","support","sympathy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142773","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=142773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}