{"id":769,"date":"2003-07-17T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/17\/7-17-03\/"},"modified":"2007-03-02T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T22:58:21","slug":"my-pencil-crashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/17\/my-pencil-crashed\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pencil Crashed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/images\/20030717papermate%20titanium%20pencil.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"90\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Technology has run amok. I was furiously taking notes at a meeting of the PVPOA (I&#8217;m working on getting them email mailing lists) and&#8230;. the best way to describe it is that my pencil crashed. It&#8217;s a fancy mechanical pencil&#8230; a Paper Mate Titanium 0.5mm to be exact. I got it special because the tip retracts so it doesn&#8217;t poke through your pocket. The main trouble is that it pushes too much lead out each time you click it. So my point broke and I clicked it again quickly since I was in a hurry and SNAP. I tried again, clicking more carefully but still in a hurry. SNAP. Again, SNAP. ARGH!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy with my Pentel Twist-Erase 0.5mm QE515 but the point makes it so that I don&#8217;t dare put the thing in a pocket for fear of being given a graphite injection! It&#8217;s happened before and it sucked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology has run amok. I was furiously taking notes at a meeting of the PVPOA (I&#8217;m working on getting them email mailing lists) and&#8230;. the best way to describe it is that my pencil crashed. It&#8217;s a fancy mechanical pencil&#8230; a Paper Mate Titanium 0.5mm to be exact. I got it special because the tip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}