{"id":300107,"date":"2025-08-04T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=300107"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:25:14","slug":"so-long-mom-a-song-for-world-war-iii-music-video-of-the-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/08\/so-long-mom-a-song-for-world-war-iii-music-video-of-the-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long, Mom&#8211;A Song for World War III (Music Video of the Week) 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Andrew Lehrer (9 Apr 1928 \u2013 26 Jul 2025) was a US musician, singer, songwriter, satirist and mathematician who later taught mathematics and musical theater. He recorded pithy and humorous, often political songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. This song speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Lehrer - So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) - with intro - widescreen\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yrbv40ENU_o?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song speaks for itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[229,871,1964,2534],"class_list":["post-300107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week","tag-activism","tag-music-video","tag-satire","tag-wwiii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300114,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300107\/revisions\/300114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}