{"id":2236,"date":"2023-12-11T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2023-12-12T21:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T05:52:42","slug":"writing-fountain-pens-and-journals-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/11\/writing-fountain-pens-and-journals-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing: Fountain Pens and Journals (gray theme)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AEG_PilotMetroGray-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AEG_PilotMetroGray-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AEG_PilotMetroGray-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AEG_PilotMetroGray-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AEG_PilotMetroGray-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AEG_PilotMetroGray-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AEG_PilotMetroGray-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AEG_PilotMetroGray.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is another Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen with a calligraphy medium (CM) nib.  The writing sample is made with Private Reserve Gray Flannel ink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s another modest-but-fun pen in my collection, with matching velvety ink.  I&#8217;ve been surprised at how many shades of gray ink are available, especially since some are so subtle and pale that I&#8217;m unsure how they can be used&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My handwriting with this style of pen is nicer when it is not hurried, but all of this year I&#8217;ve felt like I have so much to write and so little time that I can&#8217;t slow down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another modest-but-fun pen in my collection, with matching velvety ink. I&#8217;ve been surprised at how many shades of gray ink are available, especially since some are so subtle and pale that I&#8217;m unsure how they can be used&#8230; My handwriting with this style of pen is nicer when it is not hurried, but all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/11\/writing-fountain-pens-and-journals-continued\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writing: Fountain Pens and Journals (gray theme)&#8221;<\/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":"","_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":""},"categories":[254,135],"tags":[253,49,163],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-life","tag-fountain-pen","tag-handwriting","tag-ink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}