{"id":105,"date":"2012-11-29T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2012-12-11T16:50:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T00:50:45","slug":"when-a-pen-is-truly-mightier-than-a-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/when-a-pen-is-truly-mightier-than-a-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"When a pen is truly mightier than a sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ballpointpen.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"160\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/when-a-pen-is-truly-mightier-than-a-sword\/ballpointpen\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ballpointpen.jpg?fit=640%2C424&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,424\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Poisonous pen mightier than sword\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ballpointpen.jpg?fit=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ballpointpen.jpg?fit=640%2C424&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-160\" title=\"Poisonous pen mightier than sword\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ballpointpen.jpg?resize=640%2C424\" alt=\"Poisonous pen mightier than sword\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ballpointpen.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ballpointpen.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A poisonous-bullet pen is mightier, deadlier, and stealthier than a sword if your intent is to kill. South Korean activist Park Sang-hak learned this in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/11\/25\/world\/asia\/north-korea-assassination-weapons\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">failed assassination attempt<\/a> on his life by a North Korean spy wielding a Parker ballpoint pen that was designed to shoot a bullet filled with poison.<\/p>\n<p>And you thought James Bond was the only one with such gagets&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>The plan was nothing short of a Hollywood movie. I guess North Korean spies aren&#8217;t big on writing with pens. Instead, this spy planned to kill Sang-hak. South Korean authorities caught the spy before we was able to meet up with Sang-hak. They gave the ballpoint pen to forensics who then had a great time trying the pen and documenting its powers on video for all to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poisonous-bullet pen is mightier, deadlier, and stealthier than a sword if your intent is to kill. South Korean activist Park Sang-hak learned this in a failed assassination attempt on his life by a North Korean spy wielding a Parker ballpoint pen that was designed to shoot a bullet filled with poison.<\/p>\n<p>And you thought James Bond was the only one\u00a0[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,16,10,9],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2DkBj-1H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gramlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}