{"id":82150,"date":"2015-02-27T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/82150\/give-credit-where-credit-is-due\/"},"modified":"2015-02-27T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T06:57:10","slug":"give-credit-where-credit-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2015\/02\/27\/give-credit-where-credit-is-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Give credit, where credit is due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Nicki Lunderstedt writes:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I believe in giving credit where credit is due.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>That is why I must compliment the Germiston Home Affairs Department on their service.<\/p>\n<p>After a horrible experience at the Edenvale Home Affairs Department, I was nervous to go to the Germiston branch for my passport.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>However, my time there was wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I walked in the door I was assisted by a very friendly gentleman, who took me straight to the front of the queue, owing to my age.<\/p>\n<p>When I reached the counter to pay, I was greeted by very friendly female cashiers, who not only helped me with my current transaction, but also assisted me in applying for the new card ID.<\/p>\n<p>The service was amazing, and the whole experience lovely.<\/p>\n<p>Well done Germiston Home Affairs.<\/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='e86ffb9c42bde2ec9362a2921a9aafad'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home affairs staff impresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":82192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,18,6],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,5006,2730,1208,1002,1004,1167],"class_list":["post-82150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-home-affairs","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-letter","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-opinion-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","germiston home affairs","Leigh Hodgson","letter","metro","municipality","opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82150","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=82150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}