{"id":175200,"date":"2025-09-11T06:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=175200"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:16:40","slug":"tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-and-mathematics-master-passed-away-at-97-who-was-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=175200","title":{"rendered":"Tom Lehrer, musical satirist and mathematics master, passed away at 97. Who was he?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lehrer was known for his sharp takes on marriage, politics, racism, and the Cold War. He skipped two grades and entered Harvard at just 15 and fondly remembered a carefree childhood on Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/us-news\/tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-and-mathematics-master-passed-away-at-97-who-was-he-11753663880489.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lehrer was known for his sharp takes on marriage, politics, racism, and the Cold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175200-tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-and-mathematics-master-passed-away-at-97-who-was-he.jpg",1599,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175200-tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-and-mathematics-master-passed-away-at-97-who-was-he-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175200-tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-and-mathematics-master-passed-away-at-97-who-was-he-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175200-tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-and-mathematics-master-passed-away-at-97-who-was-he-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175200-tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-and-mathematics-master-passed-away-at-97-who-was-he-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175200-tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-and-mathematics-master-passed-away-at-97-who-was-he-1536x865.jpg",1536,865,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175200-tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-and-mathematics-master-passed-away-at-97-who-was-he.jpg",1599,900,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175200-tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-and-mathematics-master-passed-away-at-97-who-was-he-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175200-tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-and-mathematics-master-passed-away-at-97-who-was-he-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175200-tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-and-mathematics-master-passed-away-at-97-who-was-he-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}