{"id":82,"date":"2022-11-11T19:41:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/?p=82"},"modified":"2023-07-10T17:35:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T17:35:48","slug":"rite-in-the-rain-tough-mechanical-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/rite-in-the-rain-tough-mechanical-pencil\/","title":{"rendered":"Rite in the Rain &#8211; Tough Mechanical Pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-86\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/files\/2022\/11\/pencil-strength.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/files\/2022\/11\/pencil-strength.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/files\/2022\/11\/pencil-strength-148x300.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pre-COVID, I did all my note taking with blue Zebra G-301 0.7mm slim metal gel pens. My \u201cstock\u201d of them came home with me during COVID and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>I take a lot fewer written notes now, and time is going by, and I think all of my gel is getting sticky. I can\u2019t get pens to write anymore when I need to.<\/p>\n<p>So, I decided to go back to a mechanical pencil. Found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riteintherain.com\">Rite in the Rain<\/a> brand. 1.3mm 2B. Thick and dark.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I started using it, I started to sketch! I can shade things!<\/p>\n<p>A pencil is like a revolver. You know it is going to work even if you don\u2019t pick it up for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pre-COVID, I did all my note taking with blue Zebra G-301 0.7mm slim metal gel pens. My \u201cstock\u201d of them came home with me during COVID and beyond. I take a lot fewer written notes now, and time is going by, and I think all of my gel is getting sticky. I can\u2019t get&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/rite-in-the-rain-tough-mechanical-pencil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rite in the Rain &#8211; Tough Mechanical Pencil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office","tag-supplies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}