{"id":138,"date":"2011-06-14T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T21:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/journal\/?p=138"},"modified":"2011-06-14T17:04:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T21:04:49","slug":"2011-raleigh-pen-show-recap-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"2011 Raleigh Pen Show Recap &#8212; Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been working on this blog post for three hours now, typing and deleting, typing and deleting, and typing and deleting some more.<\/p>\n<p>But, you know what? I think this really is a case where a picture is worth a thousand words:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_139\" style=\"width: 808px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011RPSpenswb.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139  \" style=\"clear: both;\" title=\"2011 RPS Pens\" src=\"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011RPSpenswb.jpg\" alt=\"An ink bottle, a pen case, and eleven different pens spread out on a desk\" width=\"798\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011RPSpenswb.jpg 798w, https:\/\/andinewton.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011RPSpenswb-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All of these followed us home from the pen show. We promise to treat them well!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The three pens in the foreground are Chad&#8217;s finds (going from front to back):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a Rotring Newton<\/li>\n<li>a Platinum Plaisir<\/li>\n<li>a Stypen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The rest are mine (going left to right):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a Levenger&#8217;s Raven Black ink bottle<\/li>\n<li>a black leather two-pen case from Franklin-Christoph<\/li>\n<li>a Platinum Preppy (actually came with the Noodler&#8217;s HOD that I got the day before, not pictured)<\/li>\n<li>a Noodler&#8217;s ebonite pen<\/li>\n<li>a Noodler&#8217;s flex pen<\/li>\n<li>a tortoiseshell Pelikan M400 (?) (Okay, I asked, and then promptly forgot what Lisa said)<\/li>\n<li>a black Pelikan M205 (with two nibs, an M and an F)<\/li>\n<li>a grey Esterbrook Trans J<\/li>\n<li>a grey Estie Double J Icicle<\/li>\n<li>a blue Estie mechanical pencil that I rescued from someone&#8217;s &#8220;bargain bin&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over the coming weeks as I use the pens, I&#8217;ll try to post reviews, along with better pictures. And maybe tell you a bit about why I chose each of these pens and what happened when I bought them. Like how three pens really can be two pairs. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been working on this blog post for three hours now, typing and deleting, typing and deleting, and typing and deleting some more. But, you know what? I think this really is a case where a picture is worth a thousand words: &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; The three pens in&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/?p=138\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,151],"tags":[351,183,182],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4udeu-2e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}