{"id":151,"date":"2007-02-11T21:16:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T03:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgeandshannon.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/a-tale-of-two-pencils\/"},"modified":"2007-02-11T21:16:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T03:16:58","slug":"a-tale-of-two-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/a-tale-of-two-pencils","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"g2image_float_right\"><wpg2id>711<\/wpg2id><\/div>\n<p>This is the tale of two pencils that once belonged to two students whose class load was filled  with pencil-intense classes such as math and computer science. The two pencils dutifully served those students well during Calculus III, Linear Algebra, Abstract Math, Assembler II, and so forth. Finally after such dedicated service, they rested. And rested. In the back of a very dark drawer. When the drawer was opened, the students&#8217; hands reached for the newer, stronger 0.9 lead pencils. As time passed, smaller hands began reaching in the drawer. The small hands went for the pencils decorated with hearts, sparkles, basketballs or cars. And so the two lonely pencils remained mostly untouched for many years. Until the day they were brought forth once again. The two students they had served so well smiled sweetly at them, reminisced a bit, and then announced that the 0.5 lead remaining in their cavities was now needed for another recipient. They had broken parts, worn-down erasers, and missing pocket clips. With their lead now removed, they could serve the students no more. And thus, after a quick parting photo, they were then dropped into another dark place. Where their journey took them after that, the students will never know. <\/p>\n<p>Goodbye dear pencils, you served us well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>711 This is the tale of two pencils that once belonged to two students whose class load was filled with pencil-intense classes such as math and computer science. The two pencils dutifully served those students well during Calculus III, Linear Algebra, Abstract Math, Assembler II, and so forth. Finally after such dedicated service, they rested. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}