{"id":71613,"date":"2014-10-28T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/71613\/water-meter-replaced-after-a-year-of-complaints\/"},"modified":"2014-10-28T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T06:29:32","slug":"water-meter-replaced-after-a-year-of-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2014\/10\/28\/water-meter-replaced-after-a-year-of-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"Water meter replaced after a year of complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A disgruntled Mrs Harmse writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your story on replacing broken water meters reminded me of my own experience.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Our experience took place in Symhurst, Primrose, about two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Our old underground water meter got blocked, so we contacted the municipality.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The repair team gave us a temporary hose connection.<\/p>\n<p>This stayed and only when I complained to the metro a year later did they put in the new blue meter<\/p>\n<p>Only a year later.<\/p>\n<p>What took the metro so long to rectify the problem?<\/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='1287e140a6f3db31ca57f391a915c022'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro drags their feet on repairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":71728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,18,6],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,1698,1449],"class_list":["post-71613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-repairs-2","tag-water-meter"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","repairs","water meter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71613","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=71613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}