{"id":10852,"date":"2014-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/10852\/police-officer-assaulted\/"},"modified":"2014-05-16T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T06:45:00","slug":"police-officer-assaulted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/05\/16\/police-officer-assaulted\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer assaulted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The officer identified as NV Thobane found his attacker parked in his driveway.<\/p>\n<p>He gave way to the man when he asked to reverse his car.<\/p>\n<p>Thobane claimed that the man moved his car away from his entrance.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of driving away he got out of the vehicle and started being aggressive towards Thobane.<\/p>\n<p>The officer had his service pistol in his possession. The attacker allegedly grabbed the gun and used it to assault Thobane.<\/p>\n<p>A case was opened at the Middelburg police station on Thursday morning. An investigation into the matter is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mhluzi police officer spent four days in Midmed hospital following an attack by an unknown man outside his home in Hlalamnandi on Saturday .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":10853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Bridget Mahlangu","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[1430,1429],"class_list":["post-10852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-hlalamnandi","tag-mhluzi-middelburg"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["Hlalamnandi","Mhluzi Middelburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852","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=10852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}