{"id":1808,"date":"2024-11-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/2024\/11\/08\/charles-dermer-77\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:42:47","slug":"charles-dermer-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/2024\/11\/08\/charles-dermer-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Dermer &#8217;77"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2024\/11\/note-dermer.jpg\" alt=\"Chart of death data\" class=\"wp-image-2147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2024\/11\/note-dermer.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2024\/11\/note-dermer-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After having been retired for 7 years and partially accomplishing my goal of understanding the mystery of music, I turned my attention to statistics and mortality studies. Death turns out to be highly quantitative. I used population data to test a model for cell and human death. It turned into a &gt;200 page meditation on birth, death and immortality. I believe it is in the best tradition of HMC, combining science, history and philosophy. See CharlesDermer.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having been retired for 7 years and partially accomplishing my goal of understanding the mystery of music, I turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,9,84,11,12],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79","category-class-year","category-education","category-major","category-physics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}