{"id":67023,"date":"2014-08-21T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/67023\/dinwiddie-residents-left-without-water\/"},"modified":"2014-08-21T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T12:12:34","slug":"dinwiddie-residents-left-without-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/21\/dinwiddie-residents-left-without-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinwiddie residents left without water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City News recently received calls from disgruntled residents of Dinwiddie, reporting that they had been without water for most of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The residents wanted to know what was happening as calls to the metro yielded no results.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN asked the metro for the reason for the outage and received the following statement from metro spokesman Themba Gadebe: &#8220;We had to fix a leaking fire hydrant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The maintenance team had to close the water supply in to allow for the repairs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;If a situation such as this (leaking fire hydrant) arises, the department has to interrupt the water supply to avoid water losses.&#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='cfb9e62deeccf228a063481f280f205c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro explains the sudden water cut in Dinwiddie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":67027,"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":[8297,1324,1012,1003,1106,979,2730,1002,1004,4385],"class_list":["post-67023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-dinwiddie","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-water-outage"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","dinwiddie","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","water outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67023","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=67023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}