{"id":206719,"date":"2019-06-05T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T12:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/car\/judging-east-rand-motor-show\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:56:49","slug":"judging-east-rand-motor-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/motoring\/2019\/06\/05\/judging-east-rand-motor-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Judging at the East Rand Motor Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a Benoni boy, born and bred, it\u2019s something that\u2019s not only relevant to me personally, but as the Editor of a motoring newspaper and website too. This year the organisers invited me to be the judge of the Show and Shine event. I arrived at the show on a Sunday morning recently, not knowing what judging a Show and Shine entailed, well not exactly at least. I approached the organiser, she said that all of the cars that I would have to judge would have the judging criteria printed on an A4 piece of paper, placed under the car\u2019s windscreen wiper. So the proverbial baptism of fire ensued.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-133168\" src=\"https:\/\/alexnews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/s2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I proceeded to systematically judge car after car with the odd motorbike sprinkled in. The problem with being new to the whole judging scene and indeed, using what was written on a piece of paper to evaluate someone\u2019s pride and joy removed a lot of the emotion from the process. So after a few vehicles, I decided to revisit each car, taking my time to appreciate the hard work, some lost more points while others gained.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-133171\" src=\"https:\/\/alexnews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/s3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Overall it was a day worth remembering and it taught me quite a bit about the various micro car cultures that exist. I also learnt that if you\u2019re judging one of these shows that you should insist on having all of the cars in need of evaluation in the same area because I missed a few and had to take more time walking around to find disgruntled entrants.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-133174\" src=\"https:\/\/alexnews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/s4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the end, it\u2019s all worth it though as the proceeds from the Shows and Shine are going to The Pink Ladies, a cancer organisation. For more information surrounding the show, check out the article featured in the Benoni City Times.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-133175\" src=\"https:\/\/alexnews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/s6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/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='46bda3d913ff591c11e1f9562decc6ab'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The East Rand Motor Show is something that I\u2019ve been mildly involved with for the past two years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":206720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sean Nurse","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Motoring","SubCategory":"Bikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206719","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\/8257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}