{"id":112,"date":"2006-10-12T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/?p=112"},"modified":"2006-10-12T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T15:07:09","slug":"funny-warning-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2006\/10\/12\/funny-warning-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny warning tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcos at work bought a paper-shredder. The kind with a shredding head that sits on top of a basket. Attached to the basket was this warning tag:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"Funny Warning Tag\" id=\"image113\" title=\"Funny Warning Tag\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/img00046a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anything seem weird about this to you?  That&#8217;s all the tag says.  Just &#8220;remove this tag&#8221;.  Nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>The question is this: why couldn&#8217;t they just remove the tag at the factory, and save us the trouble?  And here&#8217;s a way to cut costs: don&#8217;t attach or even print the tag in the first place!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the corporate legal department declared that products must have more warning tags to ward off lawsuits.  Like the way ladders and extension cords are positively festooned with the bloody things these days.  I always tear them off&#8230; averting my eyes, of course, to avoid inadvertently reading one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcos at work bought a paper-shredder. The kind with a shredding head that sits on top of a basket. Attached to the basket was this warning tag: Anything seem weird about this to you? That&#8217;s all the tag says. Just &#8220;remove this tag&#8221;. Nothing else. The question is this: why couldn&#8217;t they just remove the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}