{"id":143,"date":"2008-02-17T03:59:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T07:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/ashrita\/worlds-largest-pencil-moves-to-st-louis\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T03:59:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T07:59:36","slug":"worlds-largest-pencil-moves-to-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Largest Pencil Moves to St Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This August a team of builders, under the direction of Ashrita Furman, built the world&#8217;s largest pencil. Measuring 76 feet, the pencil was built to maintain the exact proportions of a standard pencil. You can read about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/ashrita-furman-guinness-world-record-breaker\/worlds-largest-pencil-unveiled-in-new-york\/\">pencil&#8217;s building here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Guiness Record Breaking pencil was built to honour Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s 76th birthday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/images\/pencil.jpg\" height=\"270\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pencil has been lying in Jamaica, Queens, but has now found a home at a museum in St Louis.<\/p>\n<p>The pencil is so large it showed up on satellite screens, prompting a visit by local police officers; they were relieved to find it was a giant pencil, rather than a missile!<\/p>\n<p>Bob Cassilly, the founder of the St Louis City Museum said he was happy to take the unusual pencil. He said:  <span><\/span>&#8220;We&#8217;re sort of like opportunists and we don&#8217;t have a plan, the museum just grows organically by whatever goes our way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pencil had to be cut in half to be transported<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This August a team of builders, under the direction of Ashrita Furman, built the world&#8217;s largest pencil. Measuring 76 feet, the pencil was built to maintain the exact proportions of a standard pencil. You can read about the pencil&#8217;s building here The Guiness Record Breaking pencil was built to honour Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s 76th birthday The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest Pencil Moves to St Louis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}