{"id":73584,"date":"2014-11-17T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/73584\/metro-investigates-terrible-smell\/"},"modified":"2014-11-17T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T08:16:05","slug":"metro-investigates-terrible-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/17\/metro-investigates-terrible-smell\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro investigates terrible smell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City News received an email from Meisie Harrington, an Estera area resident.<\/p>\n<p>Harrington would like to know what is causing the foul smell in the area.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>She described the situation: \u201cResidents experience the terrible smell almost daily in the Estera area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s described as the smell of old engine oil, and mostly occurs in the late afternoon.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis has been going on for weeks now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The GCN approached the metro to try and find out what could be causing this terrible smell and what could be done to get rid of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn investigation was conducted and no signs of oil in the area or any smells were found, even when it was raining or overcast,\u201d said Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro\u2019s department of communications and brand management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have, however experienced a strong organic smell coming from the informal settlement in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is strongest early in the morning and late in the afternoon, when travelling from Germiston towards Boksburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may be caused by cooking fires.\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='d5f72cd13c196267572217816a201c69'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is causing the terrible smell?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":73592,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,5636],"class_list":["post-73584","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-smell"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","smell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73584","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=73584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}