{"id":81186,"date":"2018-05-18T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T09:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=81186"},"modified":"2018-05-22T14:14:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T12:14:34","slug":"video-children-miss-three-weeks-school-broken-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/05\/18\/video-children-miss-three-weeks-school-broken-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Children miss three weeks of school because of broken bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A concerned resident took a video of the children waiting next to the road.<\/p>\n<p>They have missed three weeks of school because the bus supposed to transport them there, has broken down.<\/p>\n<p>The children, some as young as six years old, live to far from their school to attempt and walk there.<\/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\/TN2TVx0DfAY' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The resident said that when the bus do take them to school, it often fails to take them back, forcing small children to walk up to 30 km to get back home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have any idea how worried you would have been if your six year-old child did not arrive home from school? Your child does not have a cellphone to call him on and you don\u2019t have a car to go search for them? It is unthinkable to put a parent and a child trough that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The resident requested to stay anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of children, living on a farm near Bankfontein outside Middelburg, have been waiting next to the road for three weeks, hoping that their school bus will show one day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":81187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Middelburg Observer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1446,11493,10010,21966,21990,11491,3079,11494,5260,11492,9276],"class_list":["post-81186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-bus","tag-education-issues","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg","tag-mpumalanga","tag-scholar-transport","tag-school","tag-south-african-education","tag-transport","tag-transport-contracts","tag-trusted-news-source"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["bus","education issues","local news","middelburg","Mpumalanga","scholar transport","school","south african education","Transport","transport contracts","trusted news source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81186","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=81186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}