{"id":154,"date":"2025-04-16T18:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snarglefarg.wordpress.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:03:49","slug":"tom-lehrers-the-elements-inspired-this-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/16\/tom-lehrers-the-elements-inspired-this-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Elements&#8221; by Tom Lehrer: Inspired this limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tom-lehrer-the-elements-ai-generated-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\nA vibrant 3D rendering of an atom against a black background. A textured, bumpy pink nucleus is at the center, surrounded by multiple glowing green and blue spheres representing electrons, orbiting on distinct, illuminated paths.\" class=\"wp-image-157\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tom-lehrer-the-elements-ai-generated-edited.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tom-lehrer-the-elements-ai-generated-edited-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tom-lehrer-the-elements-ai-generated-edited-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tom-lehrer-the-elements-ai-generated-edited-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tom-lehrer-the-elements-ai-generated-edited-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">Tom Lehrer, with his wit quite refined,<br>Sang of elements in a list quite aligned.<br>But some isotopes there,<br>Caused a chemist to stare,<br>\"Its atomic mass was never defined!\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AcS3NOQnsQM?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><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lehrer, with his wit quite refined,Sang of elements in a list quite aligned.But some isotopes there,Caused a chemist to stare,&#8221;Its atomic mass was never defined!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,30,40,43],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-limericks","tag-limerick","tag-periodic-chart","tag-the-elements","tag-tom-lehrer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tom-lehrer-the-elements-ai-generated-edited.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snarglefarg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}