{"id":4028,"date":"2025-07-27T18:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/tom-lehrer-harvard-s-satiric-melodic-mathematician-dies-at-97\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:11:12","slug":"tom-lehrer-harvard-s-satiric-melodic-mathematician-dies-at-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/tom-lehrer-harvard-s-satiric-melodic-mathematician-dies-at-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Lehrer, Harvard\u2019s Satiric, Melodic Mathematician, Dies at 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America\u2019s favorite satirical composers captured in tune some of the anxieties and absurdities of the 1950s and 1960s, has died, according to the New York Times. He was 97.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America\u2019s favorite satirical composers captured in tune some of the anxieties and absurdities of the 1950s and 1960s,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2958],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nysnyt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}