{"id":527,"date":"2010-04-18T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=527"},"modified":"2023-08-16T09:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T13:25:40","slug":"skilcraft-still-kicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2010\/04\/18\/skilcraft-still-kicking\/","title":{"rendered":"Skilcraft Still Kicking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up in a military family, I just took for granted the ubiquitous Skilcraft ball-point pen. They were practically the only pens in the house. They’re what I wrote (and wrote and wrote) with as a student. They wouldn’t quit and they took the beating of the backpack in stride. Only when I branched out on my own did I realize that these pens weren’t everywhere.<\/p>\n

\"Skilcraft<\/p>\n

So I greeted the Washington Post<\/em>‘s appreciation of the Skilcraft pen (“Low-tech Skilcraft pens endure in a high-tech world<\/a>“, Ylan Q. Mui, Sunday, April 18, 2010, A1) with delight:<\/p>\n

For more than 40 years, standard black pens have cluttered the desks of thousands of federal employees, hung on a chain at post offices across the country and slipped into the pockets of countless military personnel. Yet few have realized that this government-issue pen has a history to rival that of any monument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I might need to order some of these. While I’m very much a thin-point plastic tip user (Pilot Razor Point<\/a> for life!), sometimes you need a ball point pen, and these are the best around: a classic design paired with legendary writing endurance.<\/p>\n

(Image from the AbilityOne Catalog<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Growing up in a military family, I just took for granted the ubiquitous Skilcraft ball-point pen. They were practically the only pens in the house. They’re what I wrote (and wrote and wrote) with as a student. They wouldn’t quit and they took the beating of the backpack in stride. Only when I branched out … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-pens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-8v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6222,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/6222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}