{"id":50,"date":"2006-10-30T03:19:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T07:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2006\/10\/30\/contending-with-time\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T04:36:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T08:36:13","slug":"contending-with-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2006\/10\/30\/contending-with-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Contending With Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you live on another planet, there are never enough hours in the day. But if you use these efficiency techniques, you can win that battle with time:<\/p>\n<p>1. Always do at least two things at once. While showering, write a screenplay. While sorting laundry, invent a handy appliance for the home. While chatting on the phone with a dull acquaintance, take a nap.<\/p>\n<p>2. Consolidate self-improvement routines. Exercise to learn-a-language tapes while watching watercolor videos. Not only will you save time, but you&#8217;ll have thin thighs for that trip to Le Mus\u00e9e du Louvre.<\/p>\n<p>3. Buy a speaker-phone for your kitchen. You&#8217;ll be able to cook, vacuum, and knit dog-hair booties while you talk on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>4. When you&#8217;re in the kitchen, post reminder notes on the fridge. (&#8220;It&#8217;s the laundry, stupid.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>5. Group chores alphabetically. If you have to go to the pharmacy, combine your trip with errands beginning with the letter &#8216;P.&#8217;\u00a0&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/contending.html\">Contending With Time is continued here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you live on another planet, there are never enough hours in the day. But if you use these efficiency techniques, you can win that battle with time: 1. Always do at least two things at once. While showering, write a screenplay. While sorting laundry, invent a handy appliance for the home. While chatting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,27,78,22,324,29,32,111],"tags":[336,332,218,331,335,4977,333,334],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-humor","category-health-humor","category-how-to-humor","category-humor-columns","category-mental-health-humor","category-multitasking-humor","category-self-help-humor","category-social-satire","category-time-humor","tag-efficiency-humor","tag-household-chores","tag-multitasking","tag-self-help-satire","tag-self-improvement","tag-time-humor","tag-time-management","tag-time-pressure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}