{"id":5138,"date":"2020-08-13T18:37:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T17:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-theme.spider-themes.net\/docly\/docs\/docly-documentation\/content\/cheatsheet\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T18:17:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T17:17:47","slug":"colon","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/?docs=iec\/typographic\/colon","title":{"rendered":"Colon [:]"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5138\" class=\"elementor elementor-5138\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5615c89c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5615c89c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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