{"id":2083,"date":"2004-01-01T17:13:57","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T09:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/02\/cheaper-by-the-dozen\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:52:03","slug":"cheaper-by-the-dozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/01\/cheaper-by-the-dozen\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper By the Dozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12538,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/title\\\/tt0349205&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090415185342\\\/http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com:80\\\/title\\\/tt0349205\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 23:25:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 21:10:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 04:19:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 18:19:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 04:17:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 18:17:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 18:17:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&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>I absolutely, uncategorically, and unquestionably refuse to go see the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0349205\/\" title=\"IMDB: Cheaper By the Dozen\">Cheaper By the Dozen<\/a> movie currently playing in the theaters.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/006008460X\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Cheaper By the Dozen\">original book by Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey<\/a> was one of my favorite books growing up. It&#8217;s the true story of the Gilbreths, a turn of the century family unlike any other. Father was an efficiency expert, hired by companies to examine their work processes and find ways to speed up production &#8212; and he ran his life and his household by the same standards as his business. His wife shared in his duties, giving lectures on efficiency techniques (no small feat for a woman in 1917), and continued her husband&#8217;s work and business after he died. Then, there were their children &#8212; all twelve of them.<\/p>\n<p>At first, when I saw that there was going to be a new movie made from the book, I was interested. Then, I found out that it starred Steve Martin, and I began to worry. Then I saw the previews, and my fears were confirmed &#8212; in the name of &#8220;modernization&#8221;, the story I loved as a kid has been gutted to the point where apparently the only connection to the original source material is the number of children. Such a shame.<\/p>\n<p>I was ranting about this to Prairie after seeing the preview a while back, and while she could sympathize with my frustration, she couldn&#8217;t empathize, never having read the book. So, one of her Christmas presents from me this year was her own copy of Cheaper By the Dozen. She&#8217;s been reading it off and on all evening as I&#8217;ve been dinking around on the computer, and I&#8217;m constantly hearing her start to giggle (or out and out laugh) at one passage or another. I love it when something I loved so much when I was younger gives someone else the giggles as they read it for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prairie&#8217;s been reading it off and on all evening as I&#8217;ve been dinking around on the computer, and I&#8217;m constantly hearing her start to giggle (or out and out laugh) at one passage or another. I love it when something I loved so much when I was younger gives someone else the giggles as they read it for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2043,2037],"tags":[3578,3579,23,3580,193],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-personal","category-tv-and-films","tag-cheaper-by-the-dozen","tag-ernestine-gilbreth-carey","tag-film","tag-frank-gilbreth","tag-prairie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","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=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}