{"id":69129,"date":"2014-09-18T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69129\/mourning-the-loss-of-a-pet\/"},"modified":"2014-09-18T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T06:54:10","slug":"mourning-the-loss-of-a-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2014\/09\/18\/mourning-the-loss-of-a-pet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourning the loss of a pet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kerry-lee English, Marlands, writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday afternoon, I came home to find a black bag on my pavement.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I noticed this immediately and thought this might be a target placed by a criminal.<\/p>\n<p>However, upon closer inspection, I noticed that the body of my cat was inside the bag.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It was very suspicious, as obviously the individual who placed the black bag, must have known that the cat was mine.<\/p>\n<p>I thank the individual for placing my cat in a black bag, but they could, however, at least have had the guts to tell either myself or my mom where, how or when the death of my cat took place on that day.<\/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='dbbec1b65df40ed0666d3499639b9f2b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Please tell me how this happened?&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":69149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[1325,4833,979,969,1208,1662,2734,1167],"class_list":["post-69129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-cat","tag-cats-death","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-letter","tag-marlands","tag-melissa-hart","tag-opinion-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["cat","cat's death","germiston","germiston city news","letter","Marlands","melissa hart","opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69129","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=69129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}