{"id":143177,"date":"2017-01-30T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143177\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topic-33\/"},"modified":"2017-01-30T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T08:51:50","slug":"have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topic-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/30\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topic-33\/","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, January 21 to 27, was:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Little boy (3) dies in tragic house fire: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/1306245922761443\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2krWzSe<\/a><\/strong><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Tragedy struck an Elsburg family, when their three-year-old son perished in a fire at their home, last Friday. The fire in Van Der Merwe Street, Elsburg, gutted the entire house. The boy\u2019s mother and two-year-old sister, who were also in the house at the time, survived the blaze. Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services (DEMS) received a call at 9.16am about a house on fire.<\/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>\u00a0Shirean Martin, \u201cWhat 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.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Lizelle Strydom Rood, \u201cVery, very sad day for Elsburg. RIP little one. God please hold these parents tight.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Louise Botha Bezuidenhout, \u201cSo hartseer, my hart is stukkend vir die familie.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Charne de Lange, \u201cRus sag engelkind.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Kaylene Ferreira, \u201cI am just wondering why the fire station did not have sufficient engines to manage the fire? Is it sad because there are vehicles dumped near the Primrose Fire Station allegedly waiting for repairs.\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='24c5df359759c6158dd1d6f3e6438f79'><\/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":143178,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1187,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-143177","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-facebook","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","facebook","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143177","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=143177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}