{"id":11086,"date":"2026-01-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=11086"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:00:00","slug":"shelf-life-094-the-problem-with-the-tissue-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=11086","title":{"rendered":"Shelf Life 094: The Problem With The Tissue Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A few years ago, I got the flu, and it was the worst I have ever felt in my entire life. Horrible, really. I was simultaneously sweating and shivering. Exhausted but too sore to lie still. Isolated in a space where time stretched endlessly but also stood still.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So when I saw people posting at the end of this year that they\u2019d been taken out by the flu, I whispered quiet gratitudes to whatever immune-system god had spared me this time around. Yes, I\u2019m knocking on wood as I type this.<\/p>\n<p>And because I am not a normal person, this gratitude spiral landed me in a Kleenex-induced existential rabbit hole.<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/shelf-life-094-the-problem-with-the-tissue-box\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I got the flu, and it was the worst I have ever felt in my entire life. Horrible, really. I was simultaneously sweating and shivering. Exhausted but too sore to lie still. Isolated in a space where time stretched endlessly but also stood still.\u00a0 So when I saw people posting at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}