{"id":50851,"date":"2013-12-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/50851\/gospel-lovers-bear-the-rain-at-ekurhulenis-inaugural-international-gospel-festival-orekurhulenis-gospel-festivalorgospel-festival-at-germiston-lake\/"},"modified":"2013-12-19T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T07:46:14","slug":"gospel-lovers-bear-the-rain-at-ekurhulenis-inaugural-international-gospel-festival-orekurhulenis-gospel-festivalorgospel-festival-at-germiston-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/12\/19\/gospel-lovers-bear-the-rain-at-ekurhulenis-inaugural-international-gospel-festival-orekurhulenis-gospel-festivalorgospel-festival-at-germiston-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel festival at Germiston Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro held the much awaited inaugural International Gospel Festival, recently.<\/p>\n<p>As Sunday December 8 was declared a National Day of Prayer, the festival certainly lifted the somber mood as the nation mourned the passing of world icon Nelson Mandela.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Gospel lovers showed their unconditional love for gospel music, as they beat the odds of the cloudy and rainy weather.<\/p>\n<p>They danced and sang along to their favourite gospel tunes in praise and worship under umbrellas, picnic blankets and upside-down camp chairs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Although this is a sad time for millions of South Africans and the world at large, the metro&#8217;s International Gospel Festival was held in celebration of a life well lived.<\/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='30157f6e87a0b908d0601f689a5d6d51'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel lovers bear the rain at Ekurhuleni&#8217;s inaugural International Gospel Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":50852,"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":[2519,2460,1003,2516,1701,979,1143,2517,1954,2520,2521,2518,2515,974,2522,2523,1260],"class_list":["post-50851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-artist","tag-artists","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-ekurhulenis-gospel-festival","tag-festival","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-lake","tag-germiston-lake-park-jazz-arena","tag-gospel","tag-gospel-artist","tag-gospel-artists","tag-gospel-music","tag-international-gospel-festival","tag-music","tag-music-festival","tag-national-day-of-prayer","tag-nelson-mandela"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["artist","artists","Ekurhuleni","Ekurhuleni's Gospel festival","festival","germiston","Germiston Lake","Germiston Lake Park Jazz Arena","gospel","gospel artist","gospel artists","Gospel music","International Gospel Festival","music","music festival","National Day of Prayer","nelson mandela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50851","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=50851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}