{"id":20151,"date":"2014-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/20151\/troepie-weekend-at-pienaardam\/"},"modified":"2014-10-20T11:41:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T09:41:22","slug":"troepie-weekend-at-pienaardam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2014\/10\/20\/troepie-weekend-at-pienaardam\/","title":{"rendered":"Troepie weekend at Pienaardam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of the weekend is to equip children from ages 2-18 with the military culture and the exciting and interesting life of a soldier.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend also sheds knowledge of the dangers that each child and teenager face in today&#8217;s life, survival and environmental awareness.<\/p>\n<p>The children got some exercise on the obstacle course with tyres, poles, horse riding, and lion feeds for team building skills.<\/p>\n<p>They had drill competitions, horse and dog shows, lectures on drug abuse, fire fighting and foam display.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, they prepared their own meals, for instructors as well as guests.<\/p>\n<p>Children were divided into groups of two and trophies were awarded.<\/p>\n<p>More pictures and videos are available of the event on www.mobserver.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4 SA Motorised Infantry Battalion (4SAI) held its annual troepie weekend at Pienaardam Leisure Resort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":20152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20151","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=20151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}