{"id":8888,"date":"2013-07-04T11:07:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T11:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/doctors-advised-unplugging-vegetative-mandela-s\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T11:07:24","slug":"doctors-advised-unplugging-vegetative-mandela-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/doctors-advised-unplugging-vegetative-mandela-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors advised unplugging &#8216;vegetative&#8217; Mandela&#8217;s life support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Doctors treating Nelson Mandela said that he was in a &#8220;permanent vegetative state&#8221; and advised his family to turn off his life support machine, according to court documents dated June 26, obtained by media on Thursday.}}<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is in a permanent vegetative state and is assisted in breathing by a life support machine,&#8221; said a legal filing related to a family dispute over reburying the remains of Mr Mandela&#8217;s three children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Mandela family have been advised by the medical practitioners that his life support machine should be switched off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Doctors treating Nelson Mandela said that he was in a &#8220;permanent vegetative state&#8221; and advised his family to turn off his life support machine, according to court documents dated June 26, obtained by media on Thursday.}} &#8220;He is in a permanent vegetative state and is assisted in breathing by a life support machine,&#8221; said a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}