{"id":26,"date":"2005-04-21T13:38:37","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T18:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=26"},"modified":"2007-09-03T16:53:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:53:44","slug":"a-small-mystery-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"A Small Mystery Solved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#146;s <em>National Review Online<\/em> includes an interesting article by John Derbyshire about the great German mathematician <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/derbyshire\/derbyshire200504210758.asphttp:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/derbyshire\/derbyshire200504210758.asp\">Emmy Noether<\/a>. Derbyshire admits to puzzlement on one point:  &#147;Albert Einstein wrote her obituary for the <em>New York Times<\/em>, though for reasons I don&#8217;t know it was printed as a letter to the editor.&#148;  Call me cynical, but I&#146;m thinking they might well have been legally obligated to pay him some standard by-the-word rate for a formal obituary, while a letter to the editor would fill space and attract readers at no cost to the <em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#146;s National Review Online includes an interesting article by John Derbyshire about the great German mathematician Emmy Noether. Derbyshire admits to puzzlement on one point: &#147;Albert Einstein wrote her obituary for the New York Times, though for reasons I don&#8217;t know it was printed as a letter to the editor.&#148; Call me cynical, but I&#146;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}