{"id":64758,"date":"2014-07-23T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/64758\/manhole-finally-closed\/"},"modified":"2014-07-23T08:30:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T06:30:47","slug":"manhole-finally-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/23\/manhole-finally-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhole finally closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Towell recently came into the GCN offices to report an open manhole.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the manhole can be found on the pavement of Northridge Avenue, in Sunnyridge.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The manhole is approximately 3m deep and has fast running water at the bottom of it,&#8221; Towell said.<\/p>\n<p>The manhole is reported to have been open for about three months now.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I have been trying for about three months to have this manhole closed,&#8221; Towell said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I take it on myself to check that no person or animal has fallen into this clearly dangerous manhole each day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The GCN reported this serious matter to the metro.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, July 21, Towell came into the GCN offices again.<\/p>\n<p>This time it was to inform us that the manhole has been closed since his last visit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you, I have been trying for months and now it is finally closed,&#8221; he said.<\/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='8c09ef2da7c91a5a9dcd27d03a573bb7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dangerous manhole in Sunnyridge finally closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":64759,"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":[2446,8297,3897,1012,1003,979,2730,4058,1002,1004,4059,1380],"class_list":["post-64758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-closed","tag-community-2","tag-dangerous-manhole","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-manhole","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-northridge-avenue","tag-sunnyridge"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["closed","community","Dangerous manhole","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","Manhole","metro","municipality","northridge avenue","sunnyridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64758","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=64758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}