{"id":62839,"date":"2017-02-08T15:50:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=62839"},"modified":"2017-02-10T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T06:00:32","slug":"joost-van-der-westhuizen-memorial-at-loftus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/08\/joost-van-der-westhuizen-memorial-at-loftus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joost van der Westhuizen Memorial at Loftus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a private ceremony for the close family and loved ones earlier on Friday morning, Van der Westhuizen&#8217;s casket will be escorted to Loftus Versfeld, the Blue Bulls official website reported.<\/p>\n<p>The gates to the stadium will be opened to the public who wish to attend the ceromony paying respects to the legend.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will include a host of guest speakers and diginitaries, and will also feature tributes by s selection of Joost&#8217;s favorite artists.<\/p>\n<p>Guests are urged to arrive at the stadium early from 10:30 in order to ensure a smooth and diginified ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Parking will be available at: Pretoria Technical High School with access via Wessels Street (A shuttle service from s<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The memorial service of former Vodacom Bulls and Springbok scrumhalf, Joost van der Westhuizen, will be held at Loftus Versfeld on Friday 10 February 2017, starting at 12:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":62840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2887,7,11,2,2886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-sport","category-local-news","category-local-sports","category-news-headlines","category-sports-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62839","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=62839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}