{"id":59,"date":"2003-01-19T02:11:18","date_gmt":"2003-01-19T08:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2003\/01\/19\/pilot-q7\/"},"modified":"2003-01-19T02:11:18","modified_gmt":"2003-01-19T08:11:18","slug":"pilot-q7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2003\/01\/19\/pilot-q7\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Q7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Mom, and fellow <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.penlovers.com\/\">plumophile<\/A> gave me a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.pilotpen.us\/detail.asp?PenID=1\">Pilot Q7<\/A> recently.  I&#8217;ve only been carrying it for a couple of days now, but it is compelling. The stroke is a little thinner than I usually seek, but it&#8217;s dark and uniform and the friction is really about perfect. It&#8217;s a needle point, click-style pen with archival-safe acid-free gel ink. It could be a little heavier, but other than that it&#8217;s nice.<br \/> I bought myself a box of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bicworld.com\/inter_en\/bdd\/product_express.asp?product_id=123\">Bic Z4<\/A>s out of desperation about a month ago and have been not unhappy with the performance. They are a little sloppy and do bleed through, and they are a removable-cap style, but they&#8217;re cheaper than the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bmwusa.com\/assets_client\/vehicles\/Z4\/0328\/0328_main.gif\">Z4 I really wanted<\/A>, and do have a nice bold stroke. They&#8217;re really a solid enough pen, but I&#8217;m afraid I won&#8217;t be able to go back.  <P><I>The pen is mightier than the sword.<\/I> While this is probably true in a larger sense, in a one-on-one fight I&#8217;ll put money on the guy with the sword every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Mom, and fellow plumophile gave me a Pilot Q7 recently. I&#8217;ve only been carrying it for a couple of days now, but it is compelling. The stroke is a little thinner than I usually seek, but it&#8217;s dark and uniform and the friction is really about perfect. It&#8217;s a needle point, click-style pen with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}