{"id":3377,"date":"2022-04-02T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T17:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2022-04-02T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T17:37:43","slug":"national-pencil-day-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/02\/national-pencil-day-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"National Pencil Day 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"349\" data-attachment-id=\"3378\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/02\/national-pencil-day-2022\/20220402-20220401-pencil-1200\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220402-20220401-pencil-1200.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,409\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20220402-20220401-pencil-1200\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220402-20220401-pencil-1200-1024x349.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220402-20220401-pencil-1200-1024x349.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The pencil: a perfect tool for exploration, meditation, and especially the faint of heart.&quot; (lettered in pencil)\" class=\"wp-image-3378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220402-20220401-pencil-1200-1024x349.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220402-20220401-pencil-1200-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220402-20220401-pencil-1200-768x262.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220402-20220401-pencil-1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Palomino Blackwing pencil (black) on drawing paper. Text is 9 in wide.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I&#8217;m a little late, I didn&#8217;t want to miss commemorating National Pencil Day this year. It marks the day in 1858 when <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hymen_Lipman\">Hyman Lipman<\/a> received US patent number 19,783, for the first pencil-eraser combination. And we all know how important the &#8220;other&#8221; end of the pencil is! Lipman also began the first envelope company in the US. Given the current state of envelopes in US (vis a vis actually writing on them with pen and ink), Lipman may be turning over in his grave. Nevertheless, we scriveners owe him a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love pencils, those non-leak, portable, low-stakes drawing tools that take up no room in the purse or luggage. Beyond National Pencil Day &#8230; If you read this blog regularly, you will know that <a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/category\/pencil\/\">I love pencils<\/a> and have posted lots of pencil work over the years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;m a little late, I didn&#8217;t want to miss commemorating National Pencil Day this year. It marks the day in 1858 when Hyman Lipman received US patent number 19,783, for the first pencil-eraser combination. And we all know how important the &#8220;other&#8221; end of the pencil is! Lipman also began the first envelope company &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/02\/national-pencil-day-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Pencil Day 2022&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pencil"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-St","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}