{"id":71590,"date":"2014-10-26T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/71590\/jehovahs-witnesses-hold-convention\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T14:18:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:18:28","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses-hold-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/26\/jehovahs-witnesses-hold-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses hold convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leona van Rensburg and her daughter, Angelique (21), from Germiston, were just two of the delegates at the Jehovah&#8217;s Witness Regional Convention, held at Nasrec Exhibition Centre, last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The convention was attended by 30 000 people.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Angelique was one of 305 people baptised at the convention.<\/p>\n<p>She was baptised by Arthur Booi.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71591\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2014\/10\/43GCNGENERALJEHOMH_540654125.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71591\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2014\/10\/43GCNGENERALJEHOMH_540654125-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"Angelique van Rensburg (21) was one of 305 people baptised at the Jehovah's Witness Regional Convention, last weekend. She was baptised by Arthur Booi.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/10\/43GCNGENERALJEHOMH_540654125-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/10\/43GCNGENERALJEHOMH_540654125-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/10\/43GCNGENERALJEHOMH_540654125.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelique van Rensburg (21) was one of 305 people baptised at the Jehovah&#8217;s Witness Regional Convention, last weekend. She was baptised by Arthur Booi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='0591a2d0cf799f3b7d4a05465bca67d0'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local community members attend convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":71592,"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":[2701,5296,979,969,5295,2734],"class_list":["post-71590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-baptised","tag-delegates","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-jehovahs-witness-regional-convention","tag-melissa-hart"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["baptised","delegates","germiston","germiston city news","Jehovah's Witness Regional Convention","melissa hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71590","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=71590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}