{"id":65288,"date":"2014-07-29T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T08:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=65288"},"modified":"2014-07-29T10:44:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T08:44:57","slug":"germiston-residents-want-know-still-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/29\/germiston-residents-want-know-still-without-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Germiston residents want to know why they are still without power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GCN received a number of calls on Monday (July 28) from disgruntled residents who explained that they had been without power for hours.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN contacted the metro in an attempt to find out what was going on.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Metro spokesman Themba Gadebe of the metro\u2019s department of communications and brand management released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease note that Eskom lost one of their two transformers at our main substation and we experienced an overload on our network.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt happened last week and again this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEskom is currently working on the problem.\u201d<\/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='fb142eb4eb2612b01f5c4d39f897638f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro tries to explain power shortages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":65289,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1373,3023,1106,979,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-65288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-electricity","tag-eskom","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","electricity","eskom","GCN","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65288","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}