{"id":97130,"date":"2015-08-19T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/97130\/germiston-cbd-through-the-eyes-of-a-child\/"},"modified":"2015-08-19T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T07:37:04","slug":"germiston-cbd-through-the-eyes-of-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2015\/08\/19\/germiston-cbd-through-the-eyes-of-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Germiston CBD through the eyes of a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;A concerned grandmother,&#8221; Primrose, writes:<\/p>\n<p>My six-year-old grandson and I recently drove through the Germiston CBD.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>During the drive he asked me: \u201cWhy don\u2019t they clean up the town?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis place gives me the creeps.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>What am I supposed to tell him?<\/p>\n<p>The truth, that the metro seems to show no interest in the town?<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Germiston CBD there are pavements dug up and left for months.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could tell my grandson there is hope for the Germiston CBD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> The GCN has written about the state of the Germiston CBD in an article headlined \u201cWhat is happening to Germiston\u2019s CBD?\u201d: <a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/93758\/what-is-happening-to-germistons-cbd\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1J1UW5Z.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article included comment from the metro on the state of the CBD and plans going forward.<\/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='93fb85799b61603174a5bff06eef6f32'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening to Germiston\u2019s CBD? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":94334,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1208,1002,1004,1167],"class_list":["post-97130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","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","Leigh Hodgson","letter","metro","municipality","opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97130","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=97130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}