{"id":18507,"date":"2014-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/18507\/video-hero-in-blue\/"},"modified":"2014-09-22T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T09:37:11","slug":"video-hero-in-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/09\/18\/video-hero-in-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The baby&#8217;s hero in blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He has unofficially adopted the little princess and plans to be part of her life for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>And who would refuse him? When she hears his voice, it\u2019s all smiles and the Observer has the footage to prove a site which has been accessed thousands of times this week.<\/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\/9DOBDv6f2VU' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/18451\/voor-die-wind-met-koningskind\/\">Him and his partner, captain Gys Goosen, held the police\u2019s name high since Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>W\/o Kasu was overwhelmed with countless messages from friends and colleagues, over and above the compliments bestowed on him and captain Goosen, on social media platforms like the Middelburg Observer Facebook-pages and Twitter handle @mobserv.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Read more on the road ahead for baby X, alongside this week\u2019s editorial comment in the latest Middelburg Observer edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild horses could not keep reservist w\/o Abdool Kasu away from the baby girl he helped save on Friday night 12 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":18509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1812,2438,2439,2435,2441,2440],"class_list":["post-18507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-baby","tag-baby-found","tag-baby-in-bush","tag-mother","tag-weg-gegooi","tag-women-dumped-child"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["baby","baby found","Baby in Bush","mother","Weg gegooi","Women dumped Child"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18507","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=18507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}