{"id":39758,"date":"2022-12-27T14:50:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T19:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=39758"},"modified":"2022-12-27T14:50:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T19:50:40","slug":"hey-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/12\/27\/hey-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Venus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No doodle today, but I am presenting the tool with which I doodle. This as a well-worn but perfectly functioning Venus<\/em> mechanical pencil or lead holder that is used with 2mm leads. I put Mitsubishi read leads in it and it is my go-to tool for scribbling. My Dad gave it to me and he probably wore off most of the green enamel coating drafting mechanical drawings and plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No doodle today, but I am presenting the tool with which I doodle. This as a well-worn but perfectly functioning Venus mechanical pencil or lead holder that is used with 2mm leads. I put Mitsubishi read leads in it and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4953,49,16,26],"tags":[5073,310,5540,4673,5539,2030,3663,5538],"class_list":["post-39758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodle-tuesday","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","category-stuff-joe-likes","tag-2mm","tag-doodle","tag-lead","tag-lead-holder","tag-mechanical","tag-pencil","tag-sketch","tag-venus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-alg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35910,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/05\/11\/tuesday-doodle-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":39758,"position":0},"title":"Tuesday Doodle","author":"Joe","date":"May 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Usually while I am in work waiting for some process to finish or waiting for someone to come to a decision, I will scribble on whatever paper I have handy. 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