{"id":837,"date":"2024-03-09T07:49:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T14:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=837"},"modified":"2024-03-09T20:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T03:40:36","slug":"cross-bailey-medalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2024\/03\/09\/cross-bailey-medalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Bailey Medalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_1857-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_1857-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_1857-1-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_1857-1-768x694.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve always been passionate about fountain pens. As a kid I used this desk in school that still had ink wells and they always fascinated me. I tried to imagine the children before me who used to dip their nibs into it, knowing it had to be years ago. That also attests to the quality of the desks. There I was in 1976 sitting in a desk that had been in circulation since before modern pens and pencils were used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the latest fountain pen acquisition. Decided to get this one engraved. Love it! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always been passionate about fountain pens. As a kid I used this desk in school that still had ink wells and they always fascinated me. I tried to imagine the children before me who used to dip their nibs into it, knowing it had to be years ago. That also attests to the quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[382],"tags":[458,383,385,459],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fountain-pen","tag-cross","tag-fountain-pen","tag-ink","tag-medalist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_1857-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}