{"id":42757,"date":"2016-02-10T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/42757\/beware-middelburg\/"},"modified":"2016-02-10T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T08:57:49","slug":"beware-middelburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/10\/beware-middelburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware Middelburg!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one seems to be safe as 13 houses in several residential areas have been broken into over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Criminals, sometimes armed with guns, other times with crowbar in hand, effortlessly break down doors and security gates and empty houses of their valuables.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent incident, a 79 year old man living in Aerorand, was held at gunpoint by robbers looking for guns and money.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this and other incidents in Friday\u2019s edition of the Middelburg Observer, on sale on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middelburg residents have been haunted with a series of break-ins and robberies over the last couple of weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":42759,"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":[2885,7,2],"tags":[1698,1049,1992,3342,1088,3343],"class_list":["post-42757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-beware","tag-danger","tag-gevaar","tag-pasop","tag-warning","tag-weapons"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["Beware.","danger","gevaar","pasop","warning","weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42757","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=42757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}