{"id":2470,"date":"2006-03-27T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/taken-from-an-article-on-hard-to-open-packaging\/"},"modified":"2006-03-27T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T18:11:00","slug":"taken-from-an-article-on-hard-to-open-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/taken-from-an-article-on-hard-to-open-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Taken from an article on hard-to-open packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>British researchers blame &#8220;wrap rage&#8221; for more than 60,000 injuries in this country. In 2004, a writer for The Times of London described the CD as &#8220;the crucible of wrap rage,&#8221; whose old cardboard box was replaced by a &#8220;zip strip. The answer to our unwrapping prayers! Yet 12 years later, a pull-tab torn off in hand, we are still chewing through plastic like wild dogs.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That&apos;s so true though. Some of the stuff we buy these days, you need a chainsaw to open. Katy is always afraid I&apos;m going to stab myself with my leatherman when I try and cut through that hard plastic clamshell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British researchers blame &#8220;wrap rage&#8221; for more than 60,000 injuries in this country. In 2004, a writer for The Times of London described the CD as &#8220;the crucible of wrap rage,&#8221; whose old cardboard box was replaced by a &#8220;zip strip. The answer to our unwrapping prayers! Yet 12 years later, a pull-tab torn off&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/taken-from-an-article-on-hard-to-open-packaging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Taken from an article on hard-to-open packaging&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-news-from-the-stupid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-DQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}