{"id":8788,"date":"2017-05-14T00:09:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T05:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=8788"},"modified":"2017-05-13T22:07:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T03:07:52","slug":"oedipus-rex-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=8788","title":{"rendered":"Oedipus Rex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lehrer is a man of incredible talent.<br \/>\nHe has written and performed some of the most<br \/>\nhumorous songs on the planet.<br \/>\nI wavered between this version and<br \/>\nanother shorter piece, I chose this one because<br \/>\nit reveals a lot of what was going on in the minds<br \/>\nof many way back in the 1950s.<br \/>\nBut please don&#8217;t get the wrong impression, the ONLY<br \/>\nthing dated about this song is the dialogue at<br \/>\nthe beginning, and even that is quite interesting.<br \/>\nThe ditty is Tom at his absolute best&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DlSetw5lUYg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lehrer is a man of incredible talent. He has written and performed some of the most humorous songs on the planet. I wavered between this version and another shorter piece, I chose this one because it reveals a lot of what was going on in the minds of many way back in the 1950s. [&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-8788","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\/8788","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=8788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8789,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions\/8789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}