{"id":42635,"date":"2013-09-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/42635\/dogs-just-wont-stop-barkingorplease-stop-the-incessant-barking\/"},"modified":"2013-09-11T13:44:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T11:44:22","slug":"dogs-just-wont-stop-barkingorplease-stop-the-incessant-barking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2013\/09\/11\/dogs-just-wont-stop-barkingorplease-stop-the-incessant-barking\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs just won&#8217;t stop barking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stop the incessant yapping&#8221;, published in the GCN on July 5, by Denis Nasis, struck a nerve and I am unhappy to report the battle and bitterness continues in our street.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs are still being kept in the front yards of homes, often for the whole day and night, even in the cold winter months.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The dogs bark excessively and it seems nothing can be done about it, as any complaints seem to be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs are kept as a security aid but, due to the excessive barking, people no longer check why they are barking and this has led to a rise in the number of cars being broken into.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I feel the owners of these animals have no conscience, as they leave them alone for long periods of time, in a small area, with little to no stimulation, and this seems to leave only one form of entertainment &#8211; barking.<\/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='f9879a7e19f868752efe9914fe370118'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please stop the incessant barking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":44282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[985,8297,979,1208,1167],"class_list":["post-42635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-animals","tag-community-2","tag-germiston","tag-letter","tag-opinion-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["animals","community","germiston","letter","opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42635","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=42635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}