{"id":102,"date":"2013-04-24T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=102"},"modified":"2013-04-24T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T00:02:09","slug":"making_a_point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/making_a_point","title":{"rendered":"Making a Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"pencil scupture\" src=\"\/images\/NewsImages\/2013\/pencil-scupture.jpg\" \/>American students from the University of New Hampshire in Durham have made a point about their crippling debts with a sculpture made from 32,320 <a href=\"\">pencils<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sculpture, shaped like a giant graduation cap, was unveiled on April 15th (2013) in a bid to grab the attention of legislators, and each pencil represents a dollar&rsquo;s worth of debt. The protest highlights cuts in funding that have hit New Hampshire students hard.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not the first time that a huge number of pencils have been used to make a sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>Last May, British students from the University of Cumbria created imaginative crown sculptures using pencils to celebrate the Queen&rsquo;s Diamond Jubilee. The pencils were donated by the world-famous Cumberland Pencil Company and the finished sculptures exhibited at the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick as part of a special jubilee display. The Cumberland Pencil Company, which makes the famous Derwent artist&rsquo;s colour pencils, celebrated its 180th birthday last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American students from the University of New Hampshire in Durham have made a point about their crippling debts with a sculpture made from 32,320 pencils The sculpture, shaped like a giant graduation cap, was unveiled on April 15th (2013) in a bid to grab the attention of legislators, and each pencil represents a dollar&rsquo;s worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Pens_and_Pencils"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Making a Point<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/making_a_point\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Making a Point\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"American students from the University of New Hampshire in Durham have made a point about their crippling debts with a sculpture made from 32,320 pencils The sculpture, shaped like a giant graduation cap, was unveiled on April 15th (2013) in a bid to grab the attention of legislators, and each pencil represents a dollar&rsquo;s worth [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/making_a_point\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"paperstone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-04-24T00:02:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Paperstone\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@paperstone\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@paperstone\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Paperstone\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/making_a_point#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/making_a_point\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Paperstone\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/16493c53ebac7f24b6afedd03648489b\"},\"headline\":\"Making a Point\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-24T00:02:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/making_a_point\"},\"wordCount\":165,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Pens &amp; 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