{"id":80937,"date":"2015-02-11T09:48:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T07:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=80937"},"modified":"2015-02-11T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:22:36","slug":"watch-load-shedding-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2015\/02\/11\/watch-load-shedding-song\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: The load shedding song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shrish V Hargoon (28) has written a tongue-in-cheek song about load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>The song is entitled \u201cHours Of Darkness\u201d.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He told the GCN, \u201cLoad shedding, like any normal process, started off as a nightmare, as you are not accustomed to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut eventually everything falls into place.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve now learned the times for the different stages that we fall under &#8211; cellphones and laptop are fully charged in advance, so that there is still life during the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom gets the candles, paraffin lamp and LED lights all ready just before the load shedding starts at night &#8211; lol quite hilarious at times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bgPbcBRHGwE' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/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='32851da11e5d0d62761109ee279d0c54'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to and watch the video of Shrish V Hargoon&#8217;s song about load shedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":80952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[1373,5364,3023,969,6535,3024,2734,2743,2744],"class_list":["post-80937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-electricity","tag-electricity-outages","tag-eskom","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-hours-of-darkness","tag-load-shedding","tag-melissa-hart","tag-song","tag-video"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["electricity","electricity outages","eskom","germiston city news","hours of darkness","Load Shedding","melissa hart","song","video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80937","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=80937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}