{"id":8042,"date":"2013-07-18T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2013-07-18T10:35:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:35:31","slug":"stop-the-incessant-yapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2013\/07\/18\/stop-the-incessant-yapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the incessant yapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy\">\n<p><strong>Denis Nasis, Sunnyridge, writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is it only me or have the neighbourhoods gone to the dogs?<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Literally, the incessant yapping of dogs throughout the day and night leaves much to be desired.<\/p>\n<p>Dog owners seem to have lost the respect for peace and quiet and really don&#8217;t give a damn about the stressful and annoying yapping of their pets (pests).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>While dogs are there to protect us and are our best friends, this does not give them carte blanche to be a nuisance at the expense of the people who find it annoying and just want peace and quiet in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities cannot muster enough courage to deal with the issues, and the rest is left to the conscience of the dog owners &#8212; and that&#8217;s not saying much.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><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='6ebb69ffbebe9fd95d160ffc29e0fe5d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resident is complaining about dogs barking in his neighbourhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":8043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[1209,1208,1167],"class_list":["post-8042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-dogs","tag-letter","tag-opinion-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["dogs","letter","opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}