{"id":84097,"date":"2018-08-24T14:38:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T12:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=84097"},"modified":"2018-08-25T13:57:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T11:57:58","slug":"trafficupdate-police-shootout-r555-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/08\/24\/trafficupdate-police-shootout-r555-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"#TrafficUpdate: Police shootout – R555 now open."},"content":{"rendered":"

The R555 which was closed this morning is open for use again. The road was closed by local law enforcement after a shootout ensued between police and armed robbers.<\/p>\n

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The R555(Old Witbank) road is now open for use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":84083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[13151,13152,13149,13150,13138,8619],"class_list":["post-84097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-old-witbank-road-open-for-use","tag-police-shooting","tag-r555-open","tag-r555-open-again-after-shooting","tag-three-dead-after-police-shootout","tag-traffic-update"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["old witbank road open for use","police shooting","R555 open","R555 open again after shooting","three dead after police shootout","traffic update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84097","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\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}