{"id":98860,"date":"2015-09-04T13:59:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T11:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/98860\/how-trees-show-us-love\/"},"modified":"2015-09-04T13:59:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T11:59:55","slug":"how-trees-show-us-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/04\/how-trees-show-us-love\/","title":{"rendered":"How trees show us love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Trees give us clean air<\/h3>\n<p>They absorb odours and pollutant gases such as carbon dioxide, and also filter\u00a0particulates by trapping them into their leaves and barks.<\/p>\n<h3>Provide oxygen<\/h3>\n<p>By converting carbon dioxide into clean water and oxygen and releasing it into the atmosphere.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h3>Control noise pollution<\/h3>\n<p>If trees are planted strategically in a noisy neighbourhood they can decrease traffic or airport noise.<\/p>\n<h3>Give us shade<\/h3>\n<p>On those very hot summer days, we all looking for a way to cool down. Sitting under a tree not only provides you with shade but also cools you down. Saving you some money and no need for air conditioning.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h3>Food<\/h3>\n<p>From apples, avocados, mangoes and oranges. Trees not only provide humans with food but also birds and wildlife.<\/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='c74584b1ce270fcfe4bdaa39a2eccad1'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s National Arbour Week theme is Forests and People.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7663,"featured_media":98861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central ","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98860","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\/7663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}