{"id":146593,"date":"2017-03-16T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/146593\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topics-5\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T09:36:17","slug":"have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topics-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/16\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-facebook-topics-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Have your say on this week\u2019s hot Facebook topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hot topics of conversation on the Germiston City News Facebook page for the week, March 4 to 10, were:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 EMPD nab five speedsters on highway in Germiston: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/1347775488608486\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2n6WbwW<\/a><\/strong><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>EMPD officers from the High Speed Unit once again tackled speedsters on the city\u2019s highways. In an operation, recently, on the N3 highway northbound near the M2 highway split in Germiston, five motorists were apprehended for ignoring the 120km speed limit.<\/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>Harry Boyle: \u201cLet\u2019s get a taxi unit going, oh, wait I believe that the majority of taxi owners are policemen. Is that not a conflict of interest?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Cindy Orr: \u201cWhat about idiots driving in the yellow lane or overtaking on a solid white line almost causing an accident, just to get off after paying a bribe.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Adele Putter: \u201cWhat about the taxi\u2019s that keep on killing?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. National News &#8211; Man arrested for drowning four-week old puppy in kitchen sink: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/1343478465704855\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2ndxpZ2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Margate man in KwaZulu-Natal has been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly drowning a four-week-old puppy in his kitchen sink. The man is believed to have committed this atrocity to silence the crying puppy after it was nipped by its mother.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yolande Barnard: \u201cPeople are sick. They should really start bringing in more strict rules and laws.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jacqueline Hoffmann: \u201cOh no, how horrible.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Linette van Taak: \u201cWhat a disgusting excuse for a human being.&#8221;<\/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='2cbc47a1f4bd217f2ca72422fe46e721'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the conversation with the hot topics on Facebook this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":146594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-146593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","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":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"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\/146593","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=146593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}