{"id":1138,"date":"2009-03-31T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2009-03-31T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T04:01:00","slug":"pen-is-pinker-than-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/pen-is-pinker-than-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pen Is Pinker Than the Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been brightening up the inside of my purse lately. In addition to my <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/happy-very-belated-birthday-to-me.html\" target=\"_blank\">purple wallet<\/a>, I have a  red phone, a turquoise business-card holder and a green datebook. I also have a heart-shaped, light-blue keychain by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspinaloflondon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aspinal<\/a>, which I got in an issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspinaloflondon.com\/about-us\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Tatler last year<\/a>. I love that British magazines sometimes include little gifts. Why don&#8217;t U.S. magazines ever give me presents? Well, Sports Illustrated used to have the football phone free with subscription, but it wasn&#8217;t very pretty.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nWtx9JwNzmY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nWtx9JwNzmY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:85%;\" >It looks like a football but works like a regular phone!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back to my purse upgrade: I&#8217;ve just added a pink Lilly Pulitzer pen from gorgeous blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/thepreppyprincess.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Preppy Princess<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/ScwlZ0hTHAI\/AAAAAAAAHhU\/jw5cZe5FmNM\/s1600-h\/IMG_0382.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/ScwlZ0hTHAI\/AAAAAAAAHhU\/jw5cZe5FmNM\/s320\/IMG_0382.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317666385542978562\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Delightful wrapping paper<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/ScwjOl_4pkI\/AAAAAAAAHhE\/8ueOPFAixGM\/s1600-h\/IMG_0385.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/ScwjOl_4pkI\/AAAAAAAAHhE\/8ueOPFAixGM\/s320\/IMG_0385.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317663993642919490\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ta da!<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/Scwi-tvWewI\/AAAAAAAAHg8\/kE_qb4uzOv4\/s1600-h\/IMG_0387.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/Scwi-tvWewI\/AAAAAAAAHg8\/kE_qb4uzOv4\/s320\/IMG_0387.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317663720843148034\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A close-up of the pattern<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s very easy to find everything now.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/ScwqpvyErkI\/AAAAAAAAHhc\/-grpm0HuBtg\/s1600-h\/IMG_0388.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/ScwqpvyErkI\/AAAAAAAAHhc\/-grpm0HuBtg\/s320\/IMG_0388.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317672156707204674\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>As you can see from my keychain, I go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysportsclubs.com\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">New York Sports Club<\/a>. I hate it when I see people waiting on line to use a treadmill. Don&#8217;t they ever think of changing up their workout and trying the empty elliptical machine or bike or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nautilus.com\/global\/content_basic.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302039855&amp;bmUID=1238117173552&amp;adID=degstairmaster&amp;originalhostname=www.stairmaster.com&amp;bmUID=1238117174092\">Stairmaster<\/a>? That shizz annoys me. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been brightening up the inside of my purse lately. In addition to my purple wallet, I have a red phone, a turquoise business-card holder and a green datebook. I also have a heart-shaped, light-blue keychain by Aspinal, which I got in an issue of Tatler last year. I love that British magazines sometimes include&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/pen-is-pinker-than-sword\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-accessories","category-blogs-and-bloggers","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}