{"id":24709,"date":"2015-02-09T13:17:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=24709"},"modified":"2015-02-12T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T13:46:56","slug":"baby-left-hot-car-unattended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/02\/09\/baby-left-hot-car-unattended\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby left in a hot car unattended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jannie Prinsloo, Special Operations Manager at the Middelburg Mall has warned that the mall management has taken a zero tolerance stance against negligent parents who leave their infants and toddlers unattended in vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next time this happens we will be opening a criminal case,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>This after a baby estimated to be little over a year old, had to be broken out of a vehicle on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily the baby was spotted by two teenage girls who happened to pass the car. A bystander broke the window to get to the baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The child was rushed to the Dischem clinic to be checked out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kept on announcing over the intercom that the parents must return to their vehicle. They only showed up 35 minutes later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The parents were warned but Mr Prinsloo says that given that this is the third time a baby had to be rescued in little more than a month, they have decided to take more drastic steps against parents in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three babies had to be rescued from scorching hot cars in the Middelburg Mall parking lot this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":24711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24709","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\/24709","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}