{"id":79725,"date":"2015-01-30T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/79725\/faulty-breaker-responsible-for-power-outage\/"},"modified":"2015-01-30T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T08:22:12","slug":"faulty-breaker-responsible-for-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/30\/faulty-breaker-responsible-for-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Faulty breaker responsible for power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many community members have been left in the dark with Eskom\u2019s load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>So when the power went out on Thursday, January 22, it didn\u2019t seem strange to De Villers Street residents.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>That was until 24hours later they still had no power.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous calls to the metro\u2019s call centre were logged to no avail.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Germsiton City News contacted the metro, on the resident\u2019s behalf, to find out what had caused the outage in the area and when would the power be restored.<\/p>\n<p>Kelebogile Motlhomedi, a media officer for the metro\u2019s department of communication and brand management, released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe power outage that affected De Villers Street in Marlands was caused by a circuit breaker being tripped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnicians were able to restore power by Monday, January 26.&#8221;<\/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='146a4e4c9fd285ce7a41719745ed7ff6'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro restores power to Marlands&#8217; street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":79732,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,5864],"class_list":["post-79725","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-repairs"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","repairs."],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79725","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=79725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}