{"id":8948,"date":"2012-10-17T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T14:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=8948"},"modified":"2012-10-17T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T14:53:36","slug":"the-pencil-sharpener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/the-pencil-sharpener\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pencil Sharpener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pencil-Sharpener.jpg\" alt=\"Pencil Sharpener\" title=\"Pencil Sharpener\" width=\"558\" height=\"558\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pencil-Sharpener.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pencil-Sharpener-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pencil-Sharpener-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I find wall-mounted pencil sharpeners, like the kind I remember seeing in elementary school, in many houses.  They are often in the basement stairs, but sometimes they show up in bedroom closets too.  It&#8217;s a fun game that I like to play when showing homes &#8211; find the pencil sharpener!<\/p>\n<p>Why did so many people have a commercial grade pencil sharpener?  I don&#8217;t understand.  Do you have one in your house right now?  Did you have one growing up?  And if you did have one, why?  Were you really that serious about homework?  Did you run an illegal standardized testing center?  How many pencils need to sharpened?  <\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t get it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find wall-mounted pencil sharpeners, like the kind I remember seeing in elementary school, in many houses. They are often in the basement stairs, but sometimes they show up in bedroom closets too. It&#8217;s a fun game that I like to play when showing homes &#8211; find the pencil sharpener! Why did so many people have a commercial grade pencil sharpener? I don&#8217;t understand. Do you have one in your house right now? Did you<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/the-pencil-sharpener\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1575],"tags":[1781,1919,1970,4017,3612,2712],"class_list":["post-8948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","tag-blog","tag-connecticut","tag-ct","tag-hartford","tag-pencil-sharpener","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8948"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8956,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions\/8956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}