{"id":3774,"date":"2010-05-24T11:27:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T18:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2010-05-24T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T18:27:36","slug":"martin-gardner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/05\/24\/martin-gardner\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Gardner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Gardner has passed away <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/24\/us\/24gardner.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">at age 95<\/a>.  I fondly remember going back through the back issues of &#8220;Scientific American&#8221; as a kid and devouring Gardner&#8217;s &#8220;Mathematical Recreations&#8221; column (along with the similar columns written by Hofstadter and Dewdney.)  If I have any mathematical skills, I probably owe a large chunk of them to some of Gardner&#8217;s puzzles.  Indeed, in my mind, Scientific American went from a pretty good first rate science magazine, to something less than stellar, when they ended these regular columns along with their &#8220;Amateur Scientist&#8221; column.  (And don&#8217;t get me started on the &#8220;Skeptic&#8221; column in the Scientific American, which yes, I know is ironic considering Gardner&#8217;s job after the SciAm gig ended.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Gardner has passed away at age 95. I fondly remember going back through the back issues of &#8220;Scientific American&#8221; as a kid and devouring Gardner&#8217;s &#8220;Mathematical Recreations&#8221; column (along with the similar columns written by Hofstadter and Dewdney.) If I have any mathematical skills, I probably owe a large chunk of them to some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/05\/24\/martin-gardner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Martin Gardner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-mathematics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}