{"id":21443,"date":"2019-05-12T00:06:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T05:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=21443"},"modified":"2019-05-11T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:03:09","slug":"oedipus-rex-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=21443","title":{"rendered":"Oedipus Rex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This classic Tom Lehrer piece is from his recording<br>An Evening Wasted, performed at Harvard College&#8217;s<br>Sanders Theater back in 1959!<br>The lyrics are as close to perfection as you can get,<br>he was\/is the absolute master of the wry satire that<br>we have always known him for.<br>Not hyperbole, he IS the undisputed king of satire, <br>there has never been anybody better at it than he.<br>Tom is still with us, and that is a good thing.<br>I played this gem on the show this past week&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Tom Lehrer -  Oedipus Rex\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mScdJURKGWM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br> <br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This classic Tom Lehrer piece is from his recordingAn Evening Wasted, performed at Harvard College&#8217;sSanders Theater back in 1959!The lyrics are as close to perfection as you can get,he was\/is the absolute master of the wry satire thatwe have always known him for.Not hyperbole, he IS the undisputed king of satire, there has never been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21444,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21443\/revisions\/21444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}