{"id":30671,"date":"2015-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/30671\/my-beurt-7\/"},"modified":"2015-06-23T08:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T06:24:50","slug":"my-beurt-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/opinion-edition\/blogs\/2015\/06\/23\/my-beurt-7\/","title":{"rendered":"My Beurt: Yolandi van den Berg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Min wetend dat my man sopas self op &#8216;n misdaadtoneel afgekom het!<\/p>\n<p>Daar is by ons huis ingebreek.<\/p>\n<p>Kom by die huis aan&#8230; die motorhuis staan oop, deure staan oop, verskeie elektroniese goedere is gesteel&#8230; alles is omgekeer!<\/p>\n<p>Die polisie kom etlike ure later by die huis aan. N\u00e1 &#8216;n gesukkel om hulle in die hande kry! &#8220;No mam, we are not going to take fingerprints.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Die polisie se vingerafdrukeenheid bel twee dae later: &#8220;Can we come take fingerprints?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regtig?!<\/p>\n<p>Die polisie het wel later die voertuig in Mhluzi teruggekry, maar sonder en enige van die gesteelde goedere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;n Week later gaan haal ek my voertuig by die polisiestasie.<\/p>\n<p>Hier moet ek in my wit motor vol le\u00eb drankbotteltjies, uitgebrande sigaretstompies, en vuurhoutjies klim wat die diewe agtergelos het.<\/p>\n<p>Wat flits deur jou gedagtes?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;n Rekenaar gelaai met kosbare fotoherinneringe en duisende rande se goedere&#8230; W\u00e9g! En dan word daar &#8216;n partytjie in jou voertuig gehou!<\/p>\n<p>Help dit om kwaad te raak? Nee.<\/p>\n<p>Help dit om te haat? Nee.<\/p>\n<p>Help dit om soms net so bietjie te sug? Natuurlik doen dit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op &#8216;n toneel voor die Caf\u00e9 101 waar &#8216;n skoolkind van sy tas beroof is. My man bel my en voordat hy nog &#8216;n woord kan uiter s\u00ea ek: &#8220;Skat ek kan nie nou praat nie, ek&#8217;s op &#8216;n toneel&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":30673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yolandi van den Berg","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,509,2888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-editors-note","category-opinion-edition"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30671","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=30671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}