{"id":115660,"date":"2016-03-07T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=115660"},"modified":"2016-03-07T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T06:38:11","slug":"watch-only-in-south-africa-ostrich-chases-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/115660\/watch-only-in-south-africa-ostrich-chases-cyclists\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Only in South Africa &#8211; ostrich chases cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New video footage has emerged showing a team of cyclists being chased by an ostrich in Cape Town, ahead of the Argus cycle race.<\/p>\n<p>According to Oleksiy Mishchenko, his group came down to South Africa for the Cape Argus Tour, and went on a pre-race ride to the Cape of Good Hope on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suddenly, I spotted a white ostrich on my left, then this beast jumped on the road from the right and started chasing my friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a little scary at first&#8221;,\u00a0Mishchenko said. &#8220;The ostrich didn&#8217;t have any problem to keep up at 50km\/h and apparently they do 70km\/h with no sweat,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Luckily the creature decided to leave us alone, as we were running out of road,&#8221; Mishchenko said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kotWv4MCxNI\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kotWv4MCxNI\" target=\"_blank\">Video source ViralHog \/ YouTube \/ Oleksiy Mishchenko<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Videos on BusinessTech<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/100452\/watch-epic-skateboarder-flies-down-cape-town-streets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch: Epic skateboarder flies down Cape Town streets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/111071\/watch-surfer-wipes-out-on-12-meter-wave-and-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch: surfer wipes out on 12 meter wave and lives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New video footage has emerged showing a team of cyclists being chased by an ostrich in Cape Town, ahead of the Argus cycle race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":115664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[11210,26],"class_list":["post-115660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-argus","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115674,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115660\/revisions\/115674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}