{"id":143846,"date":"2017-02-09T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143846\/applause-for-your-100th\/"},"modified":"2017-02-09T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:16:04","slug":"applause-for-your-100th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2017\/02\/09\/applause-for-your-100th\/","title":{"rendered":"Applause for your 100th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Harry Brand, former pupil of Germiston High School writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was my good fortune to have been a pupil at Germiston Boys High, matriculating in 1954.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I retain very warm memories of my years at the school and appreciate now what a privilege I enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Robinson was the head teacher at the time, ably supported by a dedicated staff including, Messers Wapenar, Brink, Voss, du Plessis, Webb, Haffern, Dry, Venter and Cochrane.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I remember them all, as well as many good school friends.<\/p>\n<p>I wish the school continued success into the future and hope that today\u2019s pupils will graduate to become the leaders in the new South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/137378\/nurturing-young-minds-for-a-century\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nurturing young minds for a century<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141760\/141760\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston High\u2019s matriculants celebrate<\/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='d7f39385a7dbce959d061d4f5316f791'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former pupil thanks Germiston High School for the good foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":138400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,18,6],"tags":[1924,979,969,1458,1208,2734,1167],"class_list":["post-143846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-100-years","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-high-school","tag-letter","tag-melissa-hart","tag-opinion-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["100 years","germiston","germiston city news","germiston high school","letter","melissa hart","opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143846","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=143846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}