{"id":2587,"date":"2010-03-25T16:53:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T16:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2010-03-25T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T16:53:24","slug":"fragile-no-broken-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"Fragile? No, broken glass!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/fragile.gif\" width=\"35\" height=\"58\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin:0 20px 10px 0;\" alt=\"Fragile symbol\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What does this symbol mean to you?<\/p>\n<p>Probably &#8216;fragile \/ handle with care&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This is not how everyone would interpret it though &#8211; apparently staff at port somewhere in Africa saw this symbol on boxes, assumed they were full broken glass and threw them all into the sea. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwintessential.co.uk\/cultural-services\/articles\/crosscultural-marketing.html\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few other symbols that might appear on shipping labels. Do you know what they mean?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/internationalicons.gif\" width=\"538\" height=\"115\" alt=\"International shipping icons\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does this symbol mean to you? Probably &#8216;fragile \/ handle with care&#8217;. This is not how everyone would interpret it though &#8211; apparently staff at port somewhere in Africa saw this symbol on boxes, assumed they were full broken glass and threw them all into the sea. [Source] Here are a few other symbols [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}