{"id":2475,"date":"2009-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/revealing-signs\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T00:00:00","slug":"revealing-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/06\/revealing-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"REVEALING SIGNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following are actual signs seen in various places:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In a New York restaurant:&nbsp; &quot;Customers who consider our waitresses uncivil ought to see the manager.&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; At a Santa F&eacute; gas station:&nbsp; &quot;We will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass container.&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In the window of a long-established New Mexico dry cleaners:&nbsp; &quot;38 years on the same spot.&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In a Los Angeles dance hall:&nbsp; &quot;Good clean dancing every night but Sunday.&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In a Florida maternity ward:&nbsp; &quot;No children allowed.&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In a New York drugstore:&nbsp; &quot;We dispense with accuracy.&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In the offices of a loan company:&nbsp; &quot;Ask about our plans for owning your home.&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In a New York medical building:&nbsp; &quot;Mental Health Prevention Center&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; On a Maine shop:&nbsp; &quot;Our motto is to give our customers the lowest possible prices and workmanship.&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; At a number of military bases:&nbsp; &quot;Restricted to unauthorized personnel.&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; On a display of &quot;I love you only&quot; Valentine cards: &quot;Now available in multi-packs.&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In the window of a Kentucky appliance store:&nbsp; &quot;Don&#8217;t kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.&quot; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In a funeral parlor: &quot;Ask about our layaway plan.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are actual signs seen in various places: &#8211; In a New York restaurant:&nbsp; &quot;Customers who consider our waitresses uncivil ought to see the manager.&quot; &nbsp; &#8211; At a Santa F&eacute; gas station:&nbsp; &quot;We will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass container.&quot; &nbsp; &#8211; In the window of a long-established New Mexico dry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}