{"id":72046,"date":"2014-10-30T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72046\/residents-desperate-for-answers\/"},"modified":"2014-10-30T09:58:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T07:58:06","slug":"residents-desperate-for-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/30\/residents-desperate-for-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident desperate for answers regarding power problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, October 24, W J Davies visited the GCN\u2019s offices, desperately looking for answers.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the power had been out in Association Road, in Dawnview, from 5.25pm the previous day.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Despite numerous calls to the metro they still had no answers as to what had caused the outage or when power would be restored.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN approached the metro for answers.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Themba Gadebe, of the metro\u2019s department of communication and brand management, was able to shed some light on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are trees tampering with the power cables in the area, causing fuses to blow,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnicians have replaced them, only to have them pop again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA request has been sent to the metro\u2019s parks department to urgently assist with the problem.\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='2d9110ce28f91d264b3c649b5011810a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trees are causing havoc with the power supply in Dawnview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":72047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,8515,2],"tags":[3594,1003,1373,979,969,2730,1002,1004,4320,1965],"class_list":["post-72046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-dawnview","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-electricity","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-power","tag-trees"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["dawnview","Ekurhuleni","electricity","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","power","trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72046","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=72046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}