{"id":109664,"date":"2020-02-12T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T12:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=109664"},"modified":"2020-02-12T14:22:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T12:22:13","slug":"motorists-warned-sinkhole-verdoorn-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/12\/motorists-warned-sinkhole-verdoorn-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorists warned of sinkhole in Verdoorn Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sinkhole has formed in the center of the road, forcing traffic from both directions to swerve around it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109665\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/sinkhole-1-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/sinkhole-1-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/sinkhole-1-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The municipality has been notified and barricades have been put in place to redirect traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are advised to make use of alternative routes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109666\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/sinkhole-2-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/sinkhole-2-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/sinkhole-2-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sinkhole has formed in the middle of the four-way stop on the corner of Verdoorn- and Kogel Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":109667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10010,12898,23280,15567,23284,23283,23281,23282,23285,10333],"class_list":["post-109664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-roads","tag-middelburg-traffic","tag-sinkhole-forms-on-corner-of-verdoorn-and-kogel-street","tag-sinkhole-in-kogel-street","tag-sinkhole-in-middelburg","tag-sinkhole-in-verdoorn-street","tag-traffic-swerves-out-for-sinkhole","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["local news","middelburg news","middelburg roads","middelburg traffic","sinkhole forms on corner of verdoorn and kogel street","sinkhole in kogel street","sinkhole in middelburg","sinkhole in verdoorn street","traffic swerves out for sinkhole","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109664","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\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}