{"id":71,"date":"2009-08-02T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=71"},"modified":"2019-11-25T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:52:10","slug":"dont-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/02\/dont-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dear

Dear Departed Electric Pencil Sharpener<\/p><\/div>\n

The electric pencil sharpener my Father bought me while I was still in high school died yesterday. I still like and use wooden pencils, and I want to get another one, but it won’t be electric. I’m looking around eBay for a vintage, hand-crank, American-made sharpener. One that’s older than me and will outlive me. It doesn’t have to have wood grain.<\/p>\n

I almost killed it back in art school when I had a course that pushed the use of Prismacolors. The wax-based leads stuck to the blades of the sharpener and nearly choked it to death. I was able to take it apart and clean it up. The sharpener lived to fight another day or decade or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The electric pencil sharpener my Father bought me while I was still in high school died yesterday. I still like and use wooden pencils, and I want to get another one, but it won’t be electric. I’m looking around eBay … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[30,5,29],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sketch","tag-boston","tag-joe-williams","tag-pencil-sharpener"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-19","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40061,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/02\/15\/get-to-the-point\/","url_meta":{"origin":71,"position":0},"title":"Get to the Point!","author":"Joe","date":"February 15, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A search through some old art bins in the studio set me tumbling down a rabbit hole of wooden pencils, pencil sharpeners and crafting the perfect point. 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