{"id":81043,"date":"2015-02-12T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81043\/show-us-your-support-on-proteafire-friday\/"},"modified":"2015-02-12T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T10:05:00","slug":"show-us-your-support-on-proteafire-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/02\/12\/show-us-your-support-on-proteafire-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Show us your support on #ProteaFire Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket South Africa (CSA) and Lead SA are calling on all South Africans to show their full and unwavering support for the Proteas in Australasia by wearing their national colours or Protea jerseys during the ICC Cricket World Cup, which kicks off this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Castle Lager Proteas play their first World Cup match against Zimbabwe on Sunday February 15 at 03:00 SA time.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are all poised for a good showing by our Proteas, and we want our fans to continue with their fantastic support of the #ProteaFire campaign,\u201d said CSA Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past few months we have seen amazing support from all South Africans, and we want to continue our nation building initiatives by asking all fans to wear their Protea jerseys or South African colours and show their support on Fridays,\u201d said Lorgat.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI also want to take this opportunity to thank Lead SA for their role in getting the whole country involved in supporting the Proteas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lead SA activist Yusuf Abramjee commented: \u201cWe appeal to all South Africans to wear their SA colours and #ProteaFire shirts to show support for our team. Let\u2019s all promote national pride. Let\u2019s all get behind our boys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new Protea ODI Cup replica jersey is on sale at various stores.<\/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='f182ea30f661f2f1f1151c5802642b22'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africans to show their full and unwavering support for the Proteas in Australasia by wearing their national colours or Protea jerseys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":81044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Annette van Schalkwyk","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6548,3],"tags":[6361,2893,6553,5896],"class_list":["post-81043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket-world-cup-2015","category-sports-news","tag-annette-van-schalkwyk","tag-csa","tag-proteafire","tag-proteas"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Cricket World Cup"},"tag_labels":["Annette van Schalkwyk","csa","ProteaFire","Proteas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81043","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=81043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}