{"id":14372,"date":"2018-06-02T12:39:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=14372"},"modified":"2018-06-02T12:39:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T16:39:38","slug":"sacred-pens-and-holy-notebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=14372","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Pens and Holy Notebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=14390\">Speaking of &#8220;sacred pens&#8221; and &#8220;holy notebooks&#8221; . . .<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to write a lot, you need a good pen. Some of my journal entries from 2017 have faded badly, perhaps because they were exposed, if only briefly, to direct sunlight. Not that I wanted to keep those particular pages, but you never know when you<em> will<\/em> want something to last. The fading proved that I needed a better pen with better ink.<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes it&#8217;s nice to have a special notebook to write in. While I was shopping for Christmas presents for the children last year, I found a great journal. It features a picture of a tree with golden cogs inside. It was so metaphorically perfect for my novel that I had to buy it. I didn&#8217;t even look at the price.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow my husband knew I needed a new pen, and he magically picked one to go with my new notebook, and here is the result.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14373\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/special-pen.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14373\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14373 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/special-pen-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/special-pen-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/special-pen-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/special-pen-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/special-pen.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New pen on new notebook (pen by Cross, notebook by Peter Pauper Press). Both the ink and the paper are archival quality.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Serendipity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of &#8220;sacred pens&#8221; and &#8220;holy notebooks&#8221; . . . If you&#8217;re going to write a lot, you need a good pen. Some of my journal entries from 2017 have faded badly, perhaps because they were exposed, if only briefly, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=14372\">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":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14372"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14498,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14372\/revisions\/14498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}