{"id":97714,"date":"2015-08-25T12:15:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T10:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=97714"},"modified":"2015-08-25T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T10:15:19","slug":"join-the-germiston-city-news-on-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/25\/join-the-germiston-city-news-on-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the Germiston City News on WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City News is now on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN team has been hard at work to reach the mobile users they otherwise wouldn\u2019t through only BBM.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Adding us on WhatsApp is simple, using 079 406 1181.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Add the Germiston City News (079 406 1181) to your phone\u2019s contact list.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Open WhatsApp and start a conversation with us, please include your name, surname and cellphone number.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Enjoy news alerts directly from the Germiston City News.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN will still be available on BBM 7F102137, on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GCNnews\" target=\"_blank\">@GCNnews <\/a>or our Facebook page,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston City News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before adding us on WhatsApp, familiarise yourself with our WhatsApp service disclaimer.<\/p>\n<p>Your contact details will not be shared with any third party.<\/p>\n<p>Your connection to the Germiston City News WhatsApp service (a free service) will mean that you get messages directly from our newsroom; messages relating solely to Germiston City News content.<\/p>\n<p>We may experience a high volume of sign-ons to the WhatsApp service, therefore, you may not be added immediately (it may take a few hours), please be patient.<\/p>\n<p>You won\u2019t receive messages from other community members due to the connection.<\/p>\n<p>Should you change your device or cellphone number, you may have to re-subscribe\/add the Germiston City News as a contact again.<\/p>\n<p>Unsubscribing from the service is as easy as deleting our number from your cellphone\u2019s contact list.<\/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='0ef45110c4a54b1aa2a68051f891226b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get connected with the Germiston City News on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":97715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-97714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","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\/97714","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}