{"id":78471,"date":"2018-02-16T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T08:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=78471"},"modified":"2018-02-21T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T09:33:15","slug":"video-student-warns-crocodile-near-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/02\/16\/video-student-warns-crocodile-near-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Student warns of crocodile near campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The student warned fishermen and bush dwellers not to go too close to the water\u2019s edge.<\/p>\n<p>She was adamant that what she saw was not a water monitor, but a crocodile swimming in the water as she crossed the Meyer Street bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Several residents have claimed crocodile sightings. In October 2012, someone managed to take a video of something swimming in the water under the same bridge.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pskjfLV5zs4' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency has refuted claims after visiting the area to look for signs that a crocodile might be living in the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student walking from Kanonkop to the Nkangala FET campus, claims that she saw a crocodile in the Klein Olifants.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":73987,"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":[10497,10498,7942,10010,21966,10499,2953,9276,2252],"class_list":["post-78471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crocodile-middelburg","tag-crocodile-sighting","tag-klein-olifants","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg","tag-middelburg-mpumalanga","tag-nkangala","tag-trusted-news-source","tag-video"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["crocodile middelburg","crocodile sighting","klein olifants","local news","middelburg","middelburg mpumalanga","Nkangala","trusted news source","video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78471","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=78471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}