{"id":39889,"date":"2015-12-28T20:19:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T18:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=39889"},"modified":"2016-01-05T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T13:14:10","slug":"parents-charged-after-children-burn-to-death-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/12\/28\/parents-charged-after-children-burn-to-death-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents charged after children burn to death on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is alleged that the couple left their children, a girl (two) and a boy (three months) unattended on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of the children were discovered lying on a mattress by members of the fire department who rushed to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The couple were charged with child abuse, deliberate neglect and abandonment of child by parents.<\/p>\n<p>They are expected to appear before the Hendrina Magistrate&#8217;s court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple aged 45 and 23 were arrested early on Saturday morning after their two children burnt to death in a shack in Hendrina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":39891,"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-39889","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\/39889","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=39889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}