{"id":91473,"date":"2026-07-01T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91473"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:01:53","slug":"tributes-paid-to-pioneering-gynaecological-surgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/01\/tributes-paid-to-pioneering-gynaecological-surgeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes paid to pioneering gynaecological surgeon"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1680\/cpsprodpb\/b3c4\/live\/50791180-708c-11f1-9ccf-7b8f89cb6e74.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Christopher Balogun-Lynch, sitting in a room, looking off to the right. He has a suit on, with a white shirt, blue tie, black jacket with a yellow rose on his lapel. He has short dark hair and has a moustache. \" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Tributes from across the world have been paid to a pioneering obstetrician and gynaecological surgeon who has died aged 81, his son has said.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd95yqnjw47o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>Tributes from across the world have been paid to a pioneering obstetrician and gynaecological surgeon who has died aged 81, his son&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Professor-Christopher-Balogun-Lynch.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91473","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=91473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91475,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91473\/revisions\/91475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}