{"id":44028,"date":"2016-03-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/44028\/photographers-fight-over-clients\/"},"modified":"2016-03-02T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T07:28:51","slug":"photographers-fight-over-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/02\/photographers-fight-over-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographers &#8216;fight&#8217; over clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to information the fight broke out over who got to take a client&#8217;s photo. This after a client tried to jump the line. He was told to wait his turn. Whilst he was waiting another photographer allegedly offered to take his photo.<\/p>\n<p>According to w.o. Lize de Witt, Middelburg police spokesperson, the two competing photographers were involved in a scuffle after the one accused the other of stealing her clients.<\/p>\n<p>A fight broke out and two men were arrested. An unknown woman was said to partake in the action by throwing the fighting men with stones. She was never identified.<\/p>\n<p>Three people, a male, 33, and a married couple aged 45 and 43, were arrested on charges of assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm after they opened counter charges against each other.<\/p>\n<p>W.o. De Witt says that the three accused were supposed to appear in court yesterday (Monday). The outcome of their court appearance were not known at the time of going to press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two photographers opened cases of assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm after a &#8216;fight&#8217; at the municipal licencing department on Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":44068,"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-44028","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\/44028","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=44028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}