{"id":82432,"date":"2022-03-08T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoutlier.co.za\/?p=82432"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:43:24","slug":"blackout-a-loadshedding-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2022\/03\/08\/blackout-a-loadshedding-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackout: A loadshedding quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How well do you know the dark side? Do you know how many hours of blackouts South Africa had last year? Were there more blackouts on Mondays, or over weekends? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using data from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sepush.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eskom Se Push<\/a>&nbsp;on loadshedding from 2015 to 2021, we&#8217;ve compiled a list of random facts about loadshedding in South Africa. See how many you can answer correctly. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H2YCeALBpK\">here<\/a> to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you keep the lights on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,446,1387],"tags":[],"newsletter-post":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-82432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-loadshedding","category-news","category-the-outlier"],"acf":{"big_number":null,"big_number_caption":null,"big_number_link":null,"big_number_background":null,"big_number_text_colour":null,"big_number_icon":null,"big_number_wide":null,"featured_chart":null,"flourish_chart_id":null,"flourish_sub_title":null,"flourish_chart_width":null,"is_newsletter_post":null,"post_style":null,"show_on_front":null,"link_through":null,"chart_url":null,"background_colour":null,"text_colour":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86630,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82432\/revisions\/86630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82432"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-post?post=82432"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=82432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}