{"id":109695,"date":"2020-02-13T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=109695"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T10:57:09","slug":"strange-markers-john-magagula-street-intrigues-motorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/13\/strange-markers-john-magagula-street-intrigues-motorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange markers in John Magagula Street intrigues motorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One motorist that makes use of the road every day, stated that the meticulously placed row of cups, bottles and cigarette boxes are present every morning like clockwork.<\/p>\n<p>Upon further investigation, it came to light that the beggars that inhabit the street use the system as tokens for their daily donation of food rations.<\/p>\n<p>Paulina Maphutla and Elizabeth Motsweni explain how they each have a token, which they present to a local shop owner that gives them food each day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Read the full article in this week\u2019s copy of the\u00a0<i>Middelburg Observer<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NhKgiPlJevI' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several motorists reported a peculiar collection of random objects standing in a row along John Magagula Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":109696,"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":[10367,23308,10450,23310,10366,23309],"class_list":["post-109695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-betroubare-nuus","tag-markers-on-john-magagula","tag-middelburg-nuus","tag-motorists-curious-about-strange-markers-on-john-magagula","tag-plaaslike-nuus","tag-random-objects-placed-next-to-john-magagula"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["betroubare nuus","markers on john magagula","middelburg nuus","motorists curious about strange markers on john magagula","plaaslike nuus","random objects placed next to john magagula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109695","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=109695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}