{"id":1228,"date":"2003-05-27T05:14:50","date_gmt":"2003-05-27T19:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/book-recommendation-cheaper-by-the-dozen\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:26:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:26:44","slug":"book-recommendation-cheaper-by-the-dozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/book-recommendation-cheaper-by-the-dozen\/","title":{"rendered":"Book recommendation: Cheaper By the Dozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14583,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2003_05_01_archive.html#200337737&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12539,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/006008460X\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/006008460X\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_05_01_archive.html#200337737\" title=\"Cheaper by the Dozen movie with Steve Martin coming\">This post on BoingBoing<\/a> reminded me of a book I haven&#8217;t read in years, but that I <em>loved<\/em> when I was a kid, and can highly recommend: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/006008460X\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Cheaper by the Dozen\">Cheaper by the Dozen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the story of the Gilbreth family &#8212; dad, mom, and their twelve redheaded children &#8212; set in the early 1900&#8217;s. Mr.\u00a0Gilbreth was an &#8220;efficiency expert&#8221;, obsessed with finding the most efficient ways to do everything in life, down to timing with a stopwatch whether buttoning a shirt was faster from the top down or the bottom up. I&#8217;ve just added the book to my Amazon wishlist, and will pick it up in a while, it&#8217;s long past time to re-read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post on BoingBoing reminded me of a book I haven&#8217;t read in years, but that I _loved_ when I was a kid, and can highly recommend: Cheaper by the Dozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[3578],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-cheaper-by-the-dozen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}