{"id":95271,"date":"2015-07-27T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/95271\/two-hot-topics-of-facebook-this-week-3\/"},"modified":"2015-07-27T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T08:02:15","slug":"two-hot-topics-of-facebook-this-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/07\/27\/two-hot-topics-of-facebook-this-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Two hot topics of Facebook this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two hot topics of conversation on the Germiston City News Facebook page for the week, July 17 to 24, were:<\/p>\n<p>1. Repair work to restore power to parts of Germiston continues: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/938698236182882\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1HNnNZD<\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/07\/IMG_0260Custom_60875.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-95272\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/07\/IMG_0260Custom_60875-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0260(Custom)_60875\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/07\/IMG_0260Custom_60875-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/07\/IMG_0260Custom_60875-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/07\/IMG_0260Custom_60875.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Metro technicians worked to restore the electricity supply to parts of Germiston which had been without power since the early hours of Monday morning. After working continuously for two days, technicians managed to restore power to areas supplied by the Germiston South Extension Eight substation.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>You said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Paul Coombes, \u201cI hope I am still alive when power is restored.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Charmein Badenhorst, \u201cBeen without power since Thursday.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. Prasa comments on trains being torched:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/939064639479575\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1gRU60E<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/07\/29GCNCRIMETRAIMH1_33885.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-95273\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/07\/29GCNCRIMETRAIMH1_33885-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"29GCNCRIMETRAIMH1_33885\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/07\/29GCNCRIMETRAIMH1_33885-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/07\/29GCNCRIMETRAIMH1_33885-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/07\/29GCNCRIMETRAIMH1_33885.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prasa\u2019s Lillian Mofokeng, head of communications, commented on the recent incident where trains were set alight in Germiston.<\/p>\n<p>You said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Gert Backhoff: \u201cIn order to replace or repair these coaches, ticket prices will have to increase. Then they will burn the ticket office; another problem.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Annikie Botes Redelinghuys Tat, \u201cDis barbarse, ongeletterde, ongedisiplineerde, en selfsugtige mense wat sulke stupid dinge aanvang.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='9bc98344d4b30b4971607ba97a824c9f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have your say on this week&#8217;s hot topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":95272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-95271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95271","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=95271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}