{"id":45543,"date":"2016-03-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/45543\/explosion-victim-identified\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T12:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T10:41:03","slug":"explosion-victim-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/29\/explosion-victim-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Explosion victim identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Thabethe was doing welding work on a water tanker when the explosion occurred.<\/p>\n<p>With the impact of the explosion he was thrown about 15 metres into the air, whereafter he landed about 25 metres from the tanker.<\/p>\n<p>He died a few minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the explosion is yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/45484\/man-dies-in-explosion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man dies in explosion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who died in an explosion Friday at DCM Lineboring was identified as Mr Matthews Thabethe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":45544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Daleen Naude","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45543","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\/45543","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=45543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}