{"id":63451,"date":"2014-07-07T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/63451\/dangerous-manhole-is-closed\/"},"modified":"2014-07-07T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T09:01:58","slug":"dangerous-manhole-is-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/07\/dangerous-manhole-is-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous manhole is closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Van Noordwyk recently called the Germiston City News to report a dangerous, open manhole on Rietfontein Road, in Primrose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I noticed this manhole and the threat it presents when my daughter fell into it and was hurt,&#8221; he said.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Luckily she didn&#8217;t suffer fatal injuries, but I feel it is only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The GCN sent van Noordwyk&#8217;s concerns to the metro and the manhole was closed within three days of the problem being reported.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A statement was then issued by Themba Gadebe, of the metro&#8217;s department of communications and brand management, who said: &#8220;The manhole was closed this morning.&#8221;<\/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='2e580a5fc8c4e4c5d259a9eb8d029f15'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dangerous manhole closed after resident&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":63452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[8297,3896,3897,1012,1003,979,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-63451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-danger","tag-dangerous-manhole","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","danger","Dangerous manhole","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63451","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=63451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}