{"id":62,"date":"2011-07-13T19:29:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T19:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/?p=62"},"modified":"2011-07-21T18:08:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:08:35","slug":"suburban-pastorale-a-place-of-peace-in-the-east-of-pretoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/2011\/07\/13\/suburban-pastorale-a-place-of-peace-in-the-east-of-pretoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Suburban pastorale &#8211; a place of peace in the east of Pretoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surrounded by suburban homes and high-rise blocks of apartments in the eastern Pretoria suburb of Lynnwoood Glen lies a peaceful bird sanctuary and dam called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tshwane.gov.za\/Services\/Nature%20Conservation\/Pages\/Struben-Dam-Bird-Sanctuary.aspx\">Struben Dam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/files\/2011\/07\/20100511-067-e1311258099285.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63 \" title=\"20100511 067\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/files\/2011\/07\/20100511-067-e1311258099285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The peaceful waters of Struben Dam reflect tranquility<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The sanctuary is home to a number of bird species while the dam is populated with carp, bass and barbel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/files\/2011\/07\/20100511-068-e1311258156423.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64\" title=\"20100511 068\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/files\/2011\/07\/20100511-068-e1311258156423.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bird watching and fishing are popular activities in the sanctuary. The walks are also delightful.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/files\/2011\/07\/Struben-Dam-130109-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/files\/2011\/07\/Struben-Dam-130109-008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/files\/2011\/07\/Struben-Dam-130109-008.jpg 743w, https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/files\/2011\/07\/Struben-Dam-130109-008-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Red Bishop (Euplectes orix) in the reeds on the banks of the dam.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Entrance to the sanctuary is free and it is open every day throughout the year from 06h00 to 18h00.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Text and photos copyright Tony McGregor 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrounded by suburban homes and high-rise blocks of apartments in the eastern Pretoria suburb of Lynnwoood Glen lies a peaceful bird sanctuary and dam called Struben Dam. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11,1,12],"tags":[25,24],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-pretoria","category-south-africa","category-things-to-do-in-pretoria","tag-lynwood-glen","tag-struben-dam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/mcgregorza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}