{"id":41812,"date":"2023-10-24T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=41812"},"modified":"2023-10-24T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:50:44","slug":"pathos-in-a-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/10\/24\/pathos-in-a-pencil\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathos in a Pencil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Pathos in a Pencil\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/53282718790\/in\/pool-2778464@N23\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53282718790_8e5b36826b_z.jpg?resize=468%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pathos in a Pencil\" width=\"468\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I found this unusual advertisement for artist pencils in a 1976 issue of <em>American Artist<\/em>. Ads nowadays usually push whimsy to would-be artists &#8212; never pathos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this unusual advertisement for artist pencils in a 1976 issue of American Artist. Ads nowadays usually push whimsy to would-be artists &#8212; never pathos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[31,120],"tags":[1056,359,5738,5739,2030],"class_list":["post-41812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-curious-clutter","tag-1056","tag-ad","tag-american-artist","tag-pathos","tag-pencil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Pathos-detail.jpg?fit=640%2C481&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-aSo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":71,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/02\/dont-look-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":41812,"position":0},"title":"Don&#8217;t Look Back","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The electric pencil sharpener my Father bought me while I was still in high school died yesterday. 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