{"id":53106,"date":"2014-02-12T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/53106\/tributes-pour-in-for-christiaan\/"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:10:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T08:10:47","slug":"tributes-pour-in-for-christiaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/02\/12\/tributes-pour-in-for-christiaan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes pour in for Christiaan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GCN has received numerous comments regarding the death of Christiaan Theunissen.<\/p>\n<p>Many people sent their condolences to the family and wished them strength during their time of grief.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Some of the comments are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sheila Lewis: &#8220;Our deepest condolences to Pieter and Hester. My boys played rugby at school with Christiaan&#8217;s brothers. Christiaan was a boy with a beautiful personality. To the two brothers and sister: for you it is also a very difficult time. I can only pray that you have the strength for this very difficult time.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Renaldo, Brandon, Clinton and Frans: &#8220;Christiaan was &#8216;n goeie mens en rugbyspeler. Ons onthou hom as &#8216;n hero.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Michelle Behr: &#8220;Condolences to Pieter and Hester. Christiaan was a responsible sensible child. I&#8217;m sorry to Pieter and Hester, an absolute star was taken away from our community.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Tania: &#8220;This is totally out of control. We cannot be losing our precious children this way. My condolences to the boy&#8217;s parents, family and friends, may they find comfort knowing he has gone to a better place.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Johnny Nell: &#8220;We are going to miss our friend Chris. Wish he could come back; we need you in our rugby team.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also see: <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/53072\/family-mourns-childs-deathormatric-pupil-dies-after-being-knocked-overortragedy-strikes-elsburg-family\/\">Family mourns child&#8217;s death<\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/53006\/scholar-critical-knocked\/\">Scholar dies after being knocked down<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/53408\/community-calls-action\/\">Community calls for action<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='a78b7e6c40f7572725aa95458f6f4d55'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community supports Elsburg family after the death of their child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":53075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,7,2],"tags":[1130,8297,1318,2806,979,2734],"class_list":["post-53106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-community-2","tag-elsburg","tag-elsburg-high-school","tag-germiston","tag-melissa-hart"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","community","elsburg","elsburg high school","germiston","melissa hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53106","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=53106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}