{"id":228,"date":"2026-04-30T22:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellbewriteback.org\/?page_id=228"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:29:04","slug":"the-origin-of-the-dozen-and-bakers-dozen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wellbewriteback.org\/?page_id=228","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of the Dozen and Baker\u2019s Dozen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Teddy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The word dozen comes from the french word <em>douzaine<\/em>, which means \u201ca group of 12.\u201d In addition, 12 dozens (144 things) are called a gross. The word Baker\u2019s Dozen comes from an old English practice where bakers would add an extra loaf for free when selling a dozen loaves of bread. At the time, a law in England enforced a minimum weight on loaves of bread, with severe punishments for breaking it. In order to avoid punishment, bakers began giving customers an extra loaf of bread to ensure that they would meet the minimum weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Teddy The word dozen comes from the french word douzaine, which means \u201ca group of 12.\u201d In addition, 12 dozens (144 things) are called a gross. The word Baker\u2019s Dozen comes from an old English practice where bakers would add an extra loaf for free when selling a dozen loaves of bread. At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-228","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbewriteback.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbewriteback.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbewriteback.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbewriteback.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbewriteback.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wellbewriteback.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/wellbewriteback.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbewriteback.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}