{"id":61477,"date":"2014-06-11T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/61477\/young-flower-seller-with-a-dream\/"},"modified":"2014-06-11T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T07:20:27","slug":"young-flower-seller-with-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2014\/06\/11\/young-flower-seller-with-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Young flower seller with a dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monica Diesel, Lambton, writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my area there is a young man who has been selling flowers at a four-way stop.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He is so happy and you are guaranteed a smile and a wave whoever you are.<\/p>\n<p>The more you drive past him the more you can&#8217;t resist buying flowers from him.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I spoke to him while I was buying a bunch of flowers and asked him what his plans are.<\/p>\n<p>He told me he wants to start his own business and run a stall.<\/p>\n<p>I have been trying to find ways to support him (besides buying flowers every time I have spare cash) by getting more and more people to buy from him, but I only know so many people.<\/p>\n<p>Not often do you find young people with as much aspiration and drive as this man, and it would be wonderful if more people supported him.<\/p>\n<p>You just have to meet him or even drive past and you will see exactly what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>He sells his flowers at the four-way stop at Haley Avenue and Sixth Avenue, in Lambton.<\/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='e199aa49c659ce6975e2690109c2d30c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resident wants to help a young flower seller attain his dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":61730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3688,979,1059,1208,2734,1167],"class_list":["post-61477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion-edition","tag-flower-seller","tag-germiston","tag-lambton","tag-letter","tag-melissa-hart","tag-opinion-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["flower seller","germiston","lambton","letter","melissa hart","opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61477","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=61477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}