{"id":61704,"date":"2017-01-09T08:39:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T06:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=61704"},"modified":"2017-01-09T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T12:45:45","slug":"n4-closed-at-vosman-due-to-protest-on-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/09\/n4-closed-at-vosman-due-to-protest-on-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"N4 closed at Vosman due to protest on highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters have blockaded the route with tires and large rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Traveling motorists to and from Gauteng must please avoid the N4 around eMalahleni by using alternative routes around the city.<\/p>\n<p>Trac has also issued the following warning on its Twitter feed: \u201cProtest action on the N4 at Mathews Phosa Street, eMalahleni. Road closed. Please be patient\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRACN4route?src=hash\">#TRACN4route<\/a>. 9\/01 at 08:23. Protest action cleared on the N4 at Mathews Phosa St, eMalahleni. Traffic moving slowly due to back up.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TRAC N4 Toll Route (@TRACN4route) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TRACN4route\/status\/818342521566887937\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The N4 has been closed, and traffic is being rerouted around Vosman, eMalahleni, where protesters are causing havoc on the highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":61705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1049,1992,901,5050,1088],"class_list":["post-61704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-danger","tag-gevaar","tag-n4","tag-road-closed","tag-warning"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["danger","gevaar","n4","road closed","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61704","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=61704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}