{"id":100256,"date":"2016-08-02T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100256"},"modified":"2016-08-02T09:28:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T07:28:45","slug":"south-africas-massive-pokemon-go-community-and-where-to-find-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/100256-south-africas-massive-pokemon-go-community-and-where-to-find-them","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s massive Pokemon GO community and where to find them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the massive success of Pokemon GO across the world, thousands of South Africans have banded together to catch &#8217;em all.<\/p>\n<p>Biggest among these is the Pokemon GO South Africa <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/PoGoSA\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook group<\/a><\/strong>, which is currently sitting at just under <strong>10,000 users<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This has allowed them to create a number of large events across South Africa, the most recent being at Montecasino, Johannesburg on 30 July.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">We have partnerships with key entities to provide the most authentic and safe Pokemon GO experience in South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> If you wish to post your event on this group, please send all event details to a moderator. We are not allowing events that are merely created out of personal capacity &#8211; we expect a properly arranged event before posting it on this group. This is to ensure a certain quality standard and most important of all: safety. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Poke-SA-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100261\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Poke-SA-01.jpg\" alt=\"Poke SA 01\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Poke-SA-01.jpg 960w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Poke-SA-01-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Poke-SA-01-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Poke-SA-01-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Poke-SA-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100263\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Poke-SA-02.jpg\" alt=\"Poke SA 02\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Behind Pokemon GO\u2019s missing footprints and why people are so upset\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/100216-behind-pokemon-gos-missing-footprints-and-why-people-are-so-upset.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Behind Pokemon GO\u2019s missing footprints and why people are so upset<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to build a powerful next-gen gaming PC for under R11,000\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/99814-how-to-build-a-powerful-next-gen-gaming-pc-for-under-r11000.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to build a powerful next-gen gaming PC for under R11,000<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The best boardgames of 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/99072-the-best-boardgames-of-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The best boardgames of 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how big Pokemon GO really is in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":100259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,6],"tags":[9513,199,20246,20939,777],"class_list":["post-100256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-events","tag-facebook","tag-go","tag-group","tag-pokemon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100273,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100256\/revisions\/100273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}