{"id":80371,"date":"2025-10-09T13:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80371"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:12:17","slug":"scientist-who-paved-the-way-for-dolly-the-sheep-decades-after-he-flunked-biology-class-dies-aged-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/09\/scientist-who-paved-the-way-for-dolly-the-sheep-decades-after-he-flunked-biology-class-dies-aged-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist who paved the way for Dolly the sheep decades after he flunked biology class dies aged 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1O8AsM.img?w=534&amp;h=351&amp;m=6&amp;x=309&amp;y=99&amp;s=99&amp;d=99\" alt=\"Scientist Sir John Gurdon has died aged 92. He was dubbed the 'Godfather' of cloning\u00a0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He was told by his teacher at Eton that his dreams of being a scientist were &#8216;quite ridiculous&#8217; after failing abysmally in biology class.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/scientist-who-paved-the-way-for-dolly-the-sheep-decades-after-he-flunked-biology-class-dies-aged-92\/ar-AA1O8FpY?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=091170e318ca48abb00bc2ac07fdcdfc&amp;ei=10\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>He was told by his teacher at Eton that his dreams of being a scientist were &#8216;quite ridiculous&#8217; after failing abysmally in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dolly-the-sheep.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80373,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80371\/revisions\/80373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}