{"id":110756,"date":"2020-02-25T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=110756"},"modified":"2020-02-25T23:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:00:27","slug":"n4-eastbound-closed-protests-road-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/25\/n4-eastbound-closed-protests-road-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"N4 eastbound closed by protests &#8211; road now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic ground to a halt at around 21:30, after rioters blocked the N4 just after the Hendrina off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities responded to the scene and the fires were extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>The N4 has since been cleared and in open for traffic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-110763\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/N4-riot-4-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/N4-riot-4-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/N4-riot-4-LL-ZN-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The N4 eastbound lane was closed after protesters blocked the road with burning tyres and rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":110765,"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":[10010,12898,15567,15568,23554,23553,23552,13108,16344,10333],"class_list":["post-110756","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-traffic","tag-middelburg-traffic-update","tag-n4-blocked-by-burning-tyres","tag-n4-closed-by-protests","tag-n4-middelburg-traffic","tag-n4-traffic","tag-n4-traffic-update","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["local news","middelburg news","middelburg traffic","middelburg traffic update","n4 blocked by burning tyres","N4 closed by protests","N4 Middelburg traffic","N4 traffic","N4 traffic update","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110756","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=110756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}