{"id":76722,"date":"2017-12-21T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=76722"},"modified":"2018-01-02T10:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T08:47:58","slug":"wonderful-woman-turned-aggressive-drug-addict-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/12\/21\/wonderful-woman-turned-aggressive-drug-addict-death\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wonderful woman\u2019 turned into aggressive drug addict before death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mari Jonker (46) died in the Middelburg Hospital<\/a> last weekend.\u00a0 Mari stayed at Mercy Home before being admitted to hospital.<\/p>\n

Her sister Petro told\u00a0www.mobserver.co.za<\/b><\/a>\u00a0that she was a \u2018wonderful woman\u2019 who had a good job and was living in eMalahleni <\/a>before she started acting strangely.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe became very aggressive and shouted a lot. Her pupils also changed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She warned people to be on the lookout for drastic personality changes in their loved ones and to test for drugs immediately.<\/p>\n

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The family of a woman who passed away after being in hospital for five weeks, says that drug addiction is responsible for her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":69469,"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":[9869,9868,7870,9867,4524,5725,21966,1243,9870,4715],"class_list":["post-76722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-acting-strange","tag-dead-because-of-drugs","tag-drug-addiction","tag-emallahleni","tag-heroin","tag-mercy-home","tag-middelburg","tag-middelburg-hospital","tag-signs-of-drug-addiction","tag-witbank"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["acting strange","dead because of drugs","drug addiction","emallahleni","Heroin","mercy home","middelburg","Middelburg Hospital","signs of drug addiction","Witbank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76722","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}