{"id":227,"date":"2013-04-15T18:54:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=227"},"modified":"2013-04-15T19:14:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:14:23","slug":"national-rubber-eraser-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/national-rubber-eraser-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Rubber Eraser Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/eraser.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-228\" alt=\"eraser\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/eraser-241x300.jpg\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/eraser-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/eraser.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a>April 15th Tax Day is when you celebrate this weird and wacky holiday called national Eraser Day. \u00a0Office supply geeks, eraser collectors, artists, writers, librarians school children and rubber eraser lovers band together every April 15th to praise this simple product that has done so much for so many.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Since the day Nicolas Conte made the first pencil back in 1795, many have owed a d3ebt to the inventor of the rubber eraser. \u00a0Edward Naime, an English Engineer, mistook a cube of rubber for the commonly used piece of bread to get rid of unwanted pencil markings and discovered a new property of rubber. \u00a0Since that day erasers have been the bookkeeper&#8217;s best friend and the writer&#8217;s handmaiden. \u00a0To learn more please check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/eraser-rubber-eraser-day\">http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/eraser-rubber-eraser-day<\/a>. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eraser\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eraser<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/eraser-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-230\" alt=\"eraser 2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/eraser-2-221x300.jpg\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/eraser-2-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/04\/eraser-2.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Look at this relevant books:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/k5rpm\">http:\/\/ow.ly\/k5rpm<\/a>;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=UIOWA&amp;request=000945463\">The pencil :\u00a0a history of design and circumstance \/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 15th Tax Day is when you celebrate this weird and wacky holiday called national Eraser Day. \u00a0Office supply geeks, eraser collectors, artists, writers, librarians school children and rubber eraser lovers band together every April 15th to praise this simple product that has done so much for so many. Since the day Nicolas Conte made<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/national-rubber-eraser-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;National Rubber Eraser Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}