{"id":123397,"date":"2020-05-14T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=123397"},"modified":"2020-05-14T10:28:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T08:28:10","slug":"time-to-mask-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/05\/14\/time-to-mask-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to mask up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Www.mobserver.co.za<\/strong> went to observe residents in the CBD and the Middelburg Mall to see if they were following President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s call that citizens need to wear masks.<\/p>\n<p>Most shops instruct shoppers to wear their masks before entering the stores and hand sanitiser is provided at the entrance of businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Overall most residents, apart from the odd few, have been spotted wearing their masks and gloves in public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the government has now made it mandatory for South Africans to wear masks when they leave their homes, many Middelburg residents have been complying with the mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":123302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10010,11303,12898,24777,24776,24778,10333],"class_list":["post-123397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-masks","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-residents-comply-to-mask-rules","tag-people-wearing-masks","tag-shops-adhere-to-covid-19-hygiene-regulations","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["local news","masks","middelburg news","Middelburg residents comply to mask rules","people wearing masks","shops adhere to covid-19 hygiene regulations","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123397","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=123397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}