{"id":4103,"date":"2010-05-18T04:13:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T09:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2010-05-18T04:13:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T09:13:40","slug":"repost-nummi-this-american-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/18\/repost-nummi-this-american-life\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: NUMMI &#124; This American Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was listening to this episode of This American Life and what hit me was how much these autoworkers were proud of their work. I hope we can all have this attitude towards what we do.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a joint venture. Toyota showed GM the secrets of its production system: how it made cars of much higher quality and much lower cost than GM achieved. Frank Langfitt explains why GM didn&amp;apos;t learn the lessons \u2013 until it was too late.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/403\/nummi\">NUMMI | This American Life<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was listening to this episode of This American Life and what hit me was how much these autoworkers were proud of their work. I hope we can all have this attitude towards what we do. A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/18\/repost-nummi-this-american-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: NUMMI &#124; This American Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,79,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-reposts","category-workcareer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}