{"id":508,"date":"2021-05-03T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2021-09-13T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T18:11:43","slug":"reading-list-nope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"reading list: nope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The book <em>Home Edit Life: The Complete Guide to Organizing Absolutely Everything at Work, at Home, and on the Go <\/em>is on its way back to the library. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One word: pretentious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The photos, while very pretty, are all the same: rainbow organization on a bright white background. Because people only own things in a rainbow spectrum, right? (Also, the only people who organize their books by the cover&#8217;s color aren&#8217;t actually planning to read them.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The locations and demos in this book are only of the exceptionally wealthy &#8211; clothing closets the size of a shop with lighted shelves for hundreds of pairs of shoes, pantries are entire rooms, a &#8220;morning beverage station&#8221; the size of one of my apartment kitchens \u2026 They even included a multi-page description of organizing someone&#8217;s tour bus, yeah, that&#8217;s TOTALLY how I travel! This is absolutely useless for a normal middle class person who is trying to organize a typical suburban house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name dropping is ridiculous. This actress, that athlete, lots of them. And to make sure readers know who their clients are, they put the name in bold type. &#8220;We arranged a closet for a big dog, because Laura Dern has a big dog.&#8221; And Laura Dern&#8217;s name is in bold. Along with Reese Witherspoon, Katy Perry, a Kardashian, and more. UGH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book Home Edit Life: The Complete Guide to Organizing Absolutely Everything at Work, at Home, and on the Go is on its way back to the library. One word: pretentious. The photos, while very pretty, are all the same: rainbow organization on a bright white background. Because people only own things in a rainbow<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=508\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;reading list: nope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reading-list","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}