{"id":91355,"date":"2019-03-20T12:44:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T10:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=91355"},"modified":"2019-03-22T08:41:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:41:38","slug":"truck-set-alight-protests-optimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/03\/20\/truck-set-alight-protests-optimum\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck set alight during protests at Optimum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pullenshope Road was blocked by burning tyres and the blazing truck.<\/p>\n

Emergency response personnel are at the scene and the Pullenshope Road is said to be clear for use shortly.<\/p>\n

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It has been confirmed that the N11 (Hendrina Road) is open for use.<\/p>\n

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Protests have flared up again at Optimum Mine which has resulted in the torching of a coal truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":91359,"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":[17104,17105,17103,1298,10010,12898,10795,17102,5942,8619,10333],"class_list":["post-91355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-coal-truck-torched-at-pullenshope","tag-coal-truck-torched-by-protesters","tag-fire-at-pullenshope","tag-hendrina-road","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-optimum-mine","tag-protests-at-pullenshope","tag-pullenshope","tag-traffic-update","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["coal truck torched at pullenshope","coal truck torched by protesters","fire at pullenshope","Hendrina road","local news","middelburg news","Optimum Mine","protests at pullenshope","pullenshope","traffic update","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91355","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=91355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}