{"id":30402,"date":"2017-12-26T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=30402"},"modified":"2017-12-19T18:01:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T01:01:35","slug":"bic-cristal-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/bic-cristal-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"BIC Cristal Pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the Cool Tool postings are about someone&#8217;s discovery of a new solution to an existing problem, but I write this as a reminder of a tool that needs no introduction, the plain old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B004DBHR2Q\/cooltools-20\">Bic ballpoint pen<\/a>. These pens were introduced in 1960, and in 2006 they sold the 100 billionth of them. Not many things in our world&#8217;s culture have staying power like that. While Cool Tools has lots of pens &#038; pencils, this one&#8217;s at the non-fancy end of the spectrum. What it&#8217;s got going for it is among the very best in reliability, an extraordinarily low price and, certainly for me, a very comfortable writing experience. They seem like the epitome of simplicity and so may be overlooked. But in a world of trash pens these are always reliable and a pleasure to use. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tungsten carbide ball ensures smooth flow of BIC ink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30404,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30402\/revisions\/30404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}