{"id":20635,"date":"2014-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/20635\/stabbed-with-bottle\/"},"modified":"2014-10-29T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T09:58:13","slug":"stabbed-with-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/29\/stabbed-with-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Stabbed with bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The victim, Mr Simon Abrams(50), came home from the local tavern to sleep, but ended in hospital due to the serious wounds he sustained.<\/p>\n<p>He was allegedly stabbed by his roommate, Nkosinathi Mathebula (22).<\/p>\n<p>According to the landlord, Mr Andre Claassens, Mr Abrams started looking for his blankets.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect got up and broke the beer bottle on Mr Abrams&#8217; head and stabbed him in his chest, he also allegedly assaulted Mr Abrams with a broom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr Abrams then ran into the bathroom and locked the door,&#8221; said Mr Claassens.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Claassens tried to stop him and then phoned the police when he saw the blood.<\/p>\n<p>Mathebula was arrested and Mr Abrams was admitted to hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was brutally stabbed with a bottle because of a blanket during the early morning hours in Hlalamnandi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":20636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20635","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=20635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}