{"id":109,"date":"2015-06-12T21:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T10:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/45.120.150.61\/english.october.com.au\/?p=109"},"modified":"2015-06-12T22:13:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T11:13:23","slug":"a-sign-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"A sign of failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

We use signs every day to advise, warn or deter. They’re important. In some cases, the law depends on them. But how many times have we seen signs that make no sense, or are hopelessly ambiguous? Here’s a small collection of a few I’ve stumbled across recently …<\/p>\n

\"Entrance<\/a>

To enter or not to enter?<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"After<\/a>

I’d like to see this one tested in a court. It basically allows 24-hour parking, though I suspect that’s not the intention.<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Do<\/a>

Pretty obvious really.<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Ape<\/a>

Requires a refined palate.<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Shoptlifters\"<\/a>

That’s taking it a little far …<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We use signs every day to advise, warn or deter. They’re important. In some cases, the law depends on them. But how many times have we seen signs that make no sense, or are hopelessly ambiguous? Here’s a small collection of a few I’ve stumbled across recently …        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}