{"id":150,"date":"2011-06-20T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.houtenpennen.nl\/english\/?p=150"},"modified":"2011-06-16T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T12:36:54","slug":"a-pen-with-a-story-the-exam-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.houtenpennen.nl\/english\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"A pen with a story: the exam-pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houtenpennen.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5248-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-711 alignright\" title=\"IMG_5248 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.houtenpennen.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5248-copy-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>One of the first pens I made I gave to my oldest daughter. I gave her a pen of African tropical wood. She only uses it to make her exams (she studies Celtic languages and can use all the help she can get). Call it superstition or not, but so far she hasn\u2019t failed any class\u00a0 and up until recently she was still using the cartridge I put in for her.<\/p>\n<p>Last week she called me. \u201cYour pens sure do have timing!\u201d, she said.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI was taking my oral Irish exam and I was correcting some words and I just finished my last word and then the pen stopped working. Empty! I guess I wasn\u2019t allowed to correct anything else.\u201d<br \/>\nObviously that made me laugh. It\u2019s really good to hear that somehow my pens contain something extra.<\/p>\n<p>If you had any experiences (for example the signing of a contract or a marriage certificate) with the pens I made you would like to share, let me know. I\u2019d love to hear them!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houtenpennen.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/fancypen-gold-african-hardwood-01-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-713 aligncenter\" title=\"fancypen gold african hardwood 01 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.houtenpennen.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/fancypen-gold-african-hardwood-01-copy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first pens I made I gave to my oldest daughter. I gave her a pen of African tropical wood. She only uses it to make her exams (she studies Celtic languages and can use all the help she can get). 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