{"id":5613,"date":"2010-08-11T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2010-08-11T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:50:31","slug":"pencil-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/pencil-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Pencil sculptures&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/pencilleadsculptures-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5616\" title=\"pencilleadsculptures-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/pencilleadsculptures-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/pencilleadsculptures-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5617\" title=\"pencilleadsculptures-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/pencilleadsculptures-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/pencilleadsculptures-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5618\" title=\"pencilleadsculptures-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/pencilleadsculptures-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/pencilleadsculptures-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5619\" title=\"pencilleadsculptures-15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/pencilleadsculptures-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"564\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/pencilleadsculptures-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5620\" title=\"pencilleadsculptures-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/pencilleadsculptures-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Bridgeport, Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brazilian-born Dalton Ghetti carefully crafts the tips of pencils into amazing miniature sculptures, a sideline project for the professional carpenter who has been perfecting this art for the last 25 years. Dalton uses a razor blade, sewing needle, a sculpting knife, a steady hand, and lots of patience to meticulously carve the graphite\u2026 he has never sold these tiny works of art; he\u2019s only given them away to friends as gifts. View an online gallery of these remarkable miniatures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/culturepicturegalleries\/7916457\/Pencil-sculptures-miniature-masterpieces-carved-into-graphite-by-Dalton-Ghetti.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Thanks to Gregor Brandt\u2026 via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/culturepicturegalleries\/7916457\/Pencil-sculptures-miniature-masterpieces-carved-into-graphite-by-Dalton-Ghetti.html\" target=\"_blank\">telegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridgeport, Connecticut Brazilian-born Dalton Ghetti carefully crafts the tips of pencils into amazing miniature sculptures, a sideline project for the professional carpenter who has been perfecting this art for the last 25 years. Dalton uses a razor blade, sewing needle, a sculpting knife, a steady hand, and lots of patience to meticulously carve the graphite\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}