{"id":67731,"date":"2014-08-30T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/67731\/metro-explains-power-outage\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T13:53:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T11:53:27","slug":"metro-explains-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/30\/metro-explains-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro explains power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday, residents of Primrose East were left without power for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>A number of them reported the power outage to the GCN.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN sent a query to the metro asking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0What is the reason was for the outage?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0When the metro thought the power would be restored?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe power outage was caused by a cable fault,\u201d said Lebogang Ramashala, from the metro\u2019s communication and brand management department.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPower in some parts of Primrose East was restored by 10am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rest of the area\u2019s power was restored by technicians by 2pm.\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='05f6fe88caadf69b2ae9a3a55488c1b5'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose East left without power for several hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":67744,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,4626],"class_list":["post-67731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-power-outage"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","Power outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67731","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=67731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}