{"id":1204,"date":"2009-01-26T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T16:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:38:46","slug":"a346-rotring-core-ballpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"#a346 :: Rotring Core ballpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/012609.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1205\" title=\"012609\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/012609-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"012609\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/012609-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/012609-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/012609.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>It used to be Bic Stics, Bic ballpoints, the occasional Shaeffer Bros. throwaway or oddball Pentel gel-tip &#8211; whatever. Whatever the newspaper clerks stocked the supply closet with &#8211; that&#8217;s how I wrote. Tools didn&#8217;t matter. The work did.<\/p>\n<p>Once I moved out of dead trees and into the trackless wastes of the interwebs, I decided it was okay to buy a pen with a little more flair. So I began picking up heavier implements &#8211; Watermans, Rotrings, obscure French-made pens of anodized aluminum.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I like to stick with a good multi-pen &#8211; black\/red\/.7mmlead\/PDA &#8211; the sort of Swiss-Army-knife mentality.<\/p>\n<p>But every now and then I pick up something just for fun, and this thing &#8211; with its steroidal profile, spring-metal loop clip, stenciled-aluminum pushbutton and excessive rubber knurlies &#8211; is hugely entertaining to write with.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Rotring is said to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=rotring+out+of+business&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a\">gone out of business<\/a>, but you can still find their excellent stuff on eBay at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=rotring+out+of+business&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a\">pretty reasonable prices<\/a>. I found this one for about eight bucks.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I use it, I expect its original android owner to melt down my office door and demand it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be Bic Stics, Bic ballpoints, the occasional Shaeffer Bros. throwaway or oddball Pentel gel-tip &#8211; whatever. Whatever the newspaper clerks stocked the supply closet with &#8211; that&#8217;s how I wrote. Tools didn&#8217;t matter. The work did. Once I moved out of dead trees and into the trackless wastes of the interwebs, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,19,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera","category-fetish","category-tool","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}