{"id":74698,"date":"2017-11-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/74698\/slow-down-frogs-crossing\/"},"modified":"2017-11-02T15:07:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T13:07:24","slug":"slow-down-frogs-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/11\/02\/slow-down-frogs-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Slow down, frogs crossing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.middelburgprimaryschool.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Middelburg Primary School<\/a> have erected a &#8220;Slow down, Frogs Crossing&#8221; sign in Mandela Drive, urging motorists to avoid killing African bullfrogs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74700\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/11\/2017-10-25-PHOTO-00_79357-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/11\/2017-10-25-PHOTO-00_79357-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/11\/2017-10-25-PHOTO-00_79357-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/11\/2017-10-25-PHOTO-00_79357-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/11\/2017-10-25-PHOTO-00_79357.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Eco Monitors said that it was with great concern that they noticed the large number of frogs that were killed after the rains on the evening of Friday, 21 October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/59396\/start-your-day-by-eating-a-live-frog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Start your day by eating a live frog<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They approached the Traffic Department who willingly assisted in the erection of the signs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/afp\/187153\/the-kamasutra-froggy-style?repeat=w3tc\" target=\"_blank\">The Kamasutra, froggy style<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/48260\/mps-has-brain-power\/\" target=\"_blank\">MPS has brain power<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/7785\/verwoeds-assassin-went-mps\/\" target=\"_blank\">Verwoerd&#8217;s assassin went to MPS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local primary school is attempting to reduce the number of African bullfrogs killed by cars. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":74699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8740,8739,8738,8743,8741,21966,8742,2972,6108,1663],"class_list":["post-74698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-african-bullfrog","tag-bullfrog","tag-eco-watchers","tag-frog-crossing","tag-mandela-drive","tag-middelburg","tag-middelburg-primary","tag-steve-tshwete","tag-stlm","tag-traffic-department"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["african bullfrog","bullfrog","eco watchers","frog crossing","mandela drive","middelburg","middelburg primary","Steve Tshwete","STLM","traffic department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74698","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=74698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}