{"id":96729,"date":"2012-04-23T22:06:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T22:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2012\/04\/23\/bee-gee-robin-gibb-has-colorectal-cancer\/"},"modified":"2012-04-23T22:06:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T22:06:46","slug":"bee-gee-robin-gibb-has-colorectal-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2012\/04\/23\/bee-gee-robin-gibb-has-colorectal-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee Gee Robin Gibb has colorectal cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Bee Gees star Robin Gibb has colorectal cancer and remains in intensive care after waking from a coma, his doctor said Sunday.<br \/>\nDr. Andrew Thillainayagam said Gibb was being treated for advanced colorectal cancer and had caught pneumonia as he was weakened from grueling doses of chemotherapy and two operations.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old singer fell into a coma last week after contracting the pneumonia. Thillainayagam said that three days ago he had warned Gibb\u2019s family that he may not wake up. Instead, Gibb is now fully conscious and able to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Thillainayagam said Gibb is still in intensive care and is \u201cexhausted, extremely weak and malnourished.\u201d He is breathing with the help of an oxygen mask and needs intravenous feeding and antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is testament to Robin\u2019s extraordinary courage, iron will and deep reserves of physical strength that he has overcome quite incredible odds to get where he is now,\u201d Thillainayagam said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Bee Gees &#8212; British-born, Australia-raised brothers Robin, Barry and Maurice Gibb &#8212; had a string of disco-era hits including \u201cHow Deep is Your Love\u201d and \u201cStayin\u2019 Alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bee Gees star Robin Gibb has colorectal cancer and remains in intensive care after waking from a coma, his doctor said Sunday. Dr. Andrew Thillainayagam said Gibb was being treated for advanced colorectal cancer and had caught pneumonia as he was weakened from grueling doses of chemotherapy and two operations. The 62-year-old singer fell into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}