{"id":2356,"date":"2005-12-14T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2008-06-21T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T13:22:22","slug":"pencils-of-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/pencils-of-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Pencils of 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My best music of 2005 list isn&#8217;t ready yet, so here are my <em>Great Pencils of 2005<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Faber-Castell 9000<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 125 years old, and still the smoothest writer out there. Still alarmingly expensive; I can buy 8 tri-writes for the price of two 9000s<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ticonderoga tri-write<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a great low-fatigue triangular pencil. Writes smoothly, sharpens cleanly, and keeps its point well<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee Valley HB<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d there are just nice British-made pencils<\/li>\n<li><strong>Staedtler Mars Lumograph<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the efficient German drawing-office pencil<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dixon Primary Printer<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d meant for little kids, this chunky pencil works for big hands too. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s round, so it rolls off the desk.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The <strong>Papermate Mirado Classic<\/strong> just missed the cut. It&#8217;s a whole load of pencil for very little money, a sixth of the price of the Faber-Castell. Yes, it&#8217;s a yellow American office pencil with an eraser, but so&#8217;s the tri-write. Maybe I&#8217;m getting more used to this continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My best music of 2005 list isn&#8217;t ready yet, so here are my Great Pencils of 2005: Faber-Castell 9000 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 125 years old, and still the smoothest writer out there. Still alarmingly expensive; I can buy 8 tri-writes for the price of two 9000s Ticonderoga tri-write \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a great low-fatigue triangular pencil. Writes smoothly, sharpens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1294],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-pencil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-C0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}