{"id":137575,"date":"2019-05-19T14:33:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T12:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/cape-town-lens-round-the-rugged-rocks-the-ragged-rascals-ran\/"},"modified":"2019-05-19T14:33:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T12:33:32","slug":"cape-town-lens-round-the-rugged-rocks-the-ragged-rascals-ran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cape-town-lens-round-the-rugged-rocks-the-ragged-rascals-ran\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town Lens: round the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Cape Town <em>Chapman\u2019s Peak Drive<\/em> tagged image from photographer \u2013 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swiv<\/a> as published on Flickr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>round the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran<\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chapman's Peak Drive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/87958_5927894722_f85268339a.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><br \/><i>Image by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/90146022@N00\/5927894722\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swiv<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>(or drove)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to submit your Cape Town News<\/a> \u2013 free.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Have you tried:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/MyZA.co.za\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travelling to South Africa<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Quick Cape Town Fact:<\/strong>  Why are the houses in Bo-Kaap district painted in bright colours? The original residents of this area in Cape Town were descendants of slaves brought in from Africa and Asia and were Muslims. As part of their religion they celebrate Ramadan \u2013 the Islamic month of fasting. At the end of the holy month it is tradition to dress up in brightly coloured clothes and at the same time many of the residents then paint their houses. The reason for getting so many different colours is that the residents and neighbours discuss together what colours they are painting their houses to avoid colour clashes or two houses painted the same colour next to each other.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cape Town Chapman\u2019s Peak Drive tagged image from photographer \u2013 Swiv as published on Flickr. round the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ranImage by Swiv (or drove) Click here to submit your Cape Town News \u2013 free. Have you tried: Travelling to South Africa? Quick Cape Town Fact: Why are the houses in Bo-Kaap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3331],"tags":[25,1737,77,3333],"class_list":{"0":"post-137575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cape-town","7":"tag-cape-town-2","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-municipality","10":"tag-mycapetown-co-za","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}