{"id":53,"date":"2003-03-05T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-05T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/yfp\/tom-glazer-died\/"},"modified":"2003-03-05T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-05T08:35:00","slug":"tom-glazer-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/tom-glazer-died.html","title":{"rendered":"Tom Glazer died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who is Tom Glazer, you ask? He was a silly folk singer who wrote and recorded the classic song &#8216;On Top of Spaghetti&#8217;.&#8221;  Okay, I didn&#8217;t know both that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/02\/26\/glazer.obit.ap\/index.html\">died<\/a> last week and that he wrote the song until today.  But I did recognize this delightful ditty of his:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The sun is a mass of incandescent gas<br \/>\n  A gigantic nuclear furnace<br \/>\n  Where Hydrogen is built into Helium<br \/>\n  At a temperature of millions of degrees\n  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My good friend Rich put it on a tape that he made and now it is forever etched into my memory.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acme.com\/jef\/science_songs\/sun_shine-32.mp3\">Here<\/a> is a low bandwidth mp3 to listen to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">You can find more MP3s of Glazer&#8217;s work (written by Lou Singer and Hy Zaret) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acme.com\/jef\/science_songs\/\">http:\/\/www.acme.com\/jef\/science_songs\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who is Tom Glazer, you ask? He was a silly folk singer who wrote and recorded the classic song &#8216;On Top of Spaghetti&#8217;.&#8221; Okay, I didn&#8217;t know both that he died last week and that he wrote the song until today. But I did recognize this delightful ditty of his: The sun is a mass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}