{"id":144073,"date":"2017-02-10T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/144073\/vets-devotion-appreciated\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T07:33:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T05:33:41","slug":"vets-devotion-appreciated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2017\/02\/10\/vets-devotion-appreciated\/","title":{"rendered":"Vet\u2019s devotion appreciated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Werner Venter from Dinwiddie writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My faith in humanity has been restored as there are still wonderful people in South Africa.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>On Saturday, February 4, my Rottweiler, Nina, became very sick, she kept vomiting and was very tired.<\/p>\n<p>We rushed her to the Germiston Veterinary Hospital where we were seen to by Dr Leroy Gambanga.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He was respectful and responsive and I doubt anyone could have helped Nina more than he did.<\/p>\n<p>The thought of losing Nina was overwhelming but when I thought about how much it was going to cost to pay for her treatment I began to panic, he calmly said to me that we could discuss the matter and that we should instead focus on getting Nina back on her feet.<\/p>\n<p>I thank God that there are people like Gambanga in the world who are still so willing to help.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion he is the best vet in Johannesburg, if not South Africa, and I am so glad I had the opportunity to meet him.<\/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='faa8dcb3f8eb34cd8a5576023842b582'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local pet owner thrilled with service at Germiston Veterinary Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":144122,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-144073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","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":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"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\/144073","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=144073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}