{"id":1448,"date":"2009-12-08T20:10:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T04:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2025-06-14T21:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:16:50","slug":"pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/12\/pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthritic irony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I grabbed a new pen from the supply cabinet today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/pen-1.jpg\" alt=\"pen\" class=\"wp-image-1449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/pen-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/pen-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The package, however, frustrated me as I initially tried to open it without scissors. <a href=\"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/04\/packaging-usability\/\">I hate tough packaging<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/packaging-1.jpg\" alt=\"closeup of plastic packaging\" class=\"wp-image-1450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/packaging-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/packaging-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But this made me laugh:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/label-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ease-of-Use Commendation by Arthritis Foundation\" class=\"wp-image-1451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/label-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/label-1-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myconfinedspace.com\/2009\/01\/21\/open-x-irony-in-a-plastic-package\/\">Related<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grabbed a new pen from the supply cabinet today: The package, however, frustrated me as I initially tried to open it without scissors. I hate tough packaging. But this made me laugh: Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}