{"id":9851,"date":"2011-05-29T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9851"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:58","slug":"day-187-pencil-holder-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9851","title":{"rendered":"Day 187 &#8211; Pencil Holder (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEimEpYiUPhVklBosIk7F_6aS64RzDNkqu0RpOUwYHXUPXxNf7pCLUQimNGY5oIl0tfiJ3L0tfysOnFIbaJZxlpk6gBEOQlFoxFSd8I5waVihKZ0aPk6VY-sNDXHjqi7KJiV9-0PveUNyWo\/s320\/Picture+213.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is another ceramic piece I made years ago (29 to be exact) in Gladys Brandenburger&#8217;s basement shop.\u00a0 It was my favorite pencil holder and graced my desk all through high school and college.\u00a0 It got packed away at some point and hasn&#8217;t seen the light of day for at least 10 years. I took it to school and one of the eighth grade boys asked about it.\u00a0 I told him what it was and that I was giving it away.\u00a0 He took it to use as a cheap gift for his Mom (or Dad&#8230; he couldn&#8217;t decide!).\u00a0  He asked if the pencils came with the holder.\u00a0 I said, &#8220;Sure, take the pencils.&#8221;\u00a0 So he grabbed a handful, walked across the room to another student, shoved the pencils at his classmate and said, &#8220;Here &#8230; now don&#8217;t ask me for another pencil the rest of the school year!&#8221; (Some other kid had\u00a0earlier asked to have the pencil holder\u00a0to use for target practice with his shotgun!\u00a0 He got denied.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another ceramic piece I made years ago (29 to be exact) in Gladys Brandenburger&#8217;s basement shop.\u00a0 It was my favorite pencil holder and graced my desk all through high school and college.\u00a0 It got packed away at some point and hasn&#8217;t seen the light of day for at least 10 years. I took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9853,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions\/9853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}