{"id":13280,"date":"2025-04-11T17:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13280"},"modified":"2025-04-11T17:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:47:22","slug":"funeral-for-auckland-boy-who-died-after-tonsil-surgery-taking-place-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13280","title":{"rendered":"Funeral for Auckland boy who died after tonsil surgery taking place tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<ul class=\"article__unordered_list\">\n<li><b>A 6-year-old Auckland boy died after\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/auckland-boy-dies-after-routine-tonsils-surgery-at-southern-cross-hospital-health-nz-launches-probe\/JSDZ2YMYC5AMJAZZ3XDCRG4JNQ\/\" target=\"_self\"><b>complications from routine tonsil surgery<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/nz-police\/\" target=\"_self\"><b>Police<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0and Health NZ are investigating the death, with a post-mortem examination expected to be carried out.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The funeral is on Saturday, followed by 13 days of prayer.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">A 6-year-old boy who died after complications from routine tonsil surgery will be farewelled this weekend at an emotional ceremony dubbed a celebration of the youngster\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s understood the boy\u2019s Fijian Indian family are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/hinduism\/\" target=\"_self\">Hindu<\/a>\u00a0and the funeral will take place tomorrow.<br \/>\nA source told the\u00a0<i>Herald<\/i>\u00a0the parents are in the throes of grief after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/death-after-routine-tonsil-surgery-extremely-rare-leading-surgeon-says-after-childs-fatality\/HWIKLIW4URBERPRCZ65MJVYW64\/\" target=\"_self\">sudden loss of their son<\/a>.<br \/>\n~NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 6-year-old Auckland boy died after\u00a0complications from routine tonsil surgery. Police\u00a0and Health NZ are investigating the death, with a post-mortem examination expected to be carried out. The funeral is on Saturday, followed by 13 days of prayer. A 6-year-old boy who died after complications from routine tonsil surgery will be farewelled this weekend at an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,208,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13281,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions\/13281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}