{"id":10443,"date":"2014-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/10443\/election-posters-still-hanging\/"},"modified":"2014-05-14T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T13:57:16","slug":"election-posters-still-hanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/05\/14\/election-posters-still-hanging\/","title":{"rendered":"Election posters still hanging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only two parties posters are still hanging in our streets, that of ANC and EFF, which by now are tearing up and littering the sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p>And the municipal by-laws are clear about this: &#8220;No poster or other advertisement shall be displayed for longer than three days after the day on which it terminates&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the by-law, the municipality has a right to withhold deposit fees and impose a fine on those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Municipal Manager Willie Fouch\u00e9 could not be reached for comment on Monday morning in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the National Elections already a week behind us, some political parties have failed to remove campaign posters scattered all over town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":10444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1358,1146,1132,1284],"class_list":["post-10443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-2014-elections","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-eff"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["2014 elections","anc","DA","EFF"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}