{"id":1339,"date":"2008-11-03T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2008-11-03T21:24:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T02:24:38","slug":"crayola-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2008\/11\/crayola-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Crayola Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weekends ago I went up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crayola.com\/Factory\/\">Crayola Factory in Easton, PA<\/a> with my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinnodog.com\/\">Stephen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;factory&#8221; was pretty much a big activity center geared toward kids. There were some cool displays about the history of Crayola, and a little demo factory with a whole presentation on the basics of crayon and marker creation.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/112008\/crayola_hall_of_fame_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/112008\/crayola_hall_of_fame_1_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Retired colors: Prussian Blue, Flesh and Indian Red<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/112008\/crayola_hall_of_fame_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/112008\/crayola_hall_of_fame_2_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A bunch more retired colors (for less political reasons) &#8211; Violet Blue is no more?!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/112008\/crayola_demo_factory.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/112008\/crayola_demo_factory_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This demo factory was pretty neat, there were cameras on what the fellow presenting was doing as he made a new batch of red crayons and some orange markers<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/112008\/crayola_roll_crayon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/112008\/crayola_roll_crayon_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And I got to wrap my own crayon! Prior to the invention of the automatic crayon wrapping machine they hired nearby families to manually roll them&#8230; I can only imagine the paper cuts, ouch.<\/p>\n<p>After the tour we hit the Crayola store, where I got a big box of crayons, an 8-pack of nice dry erase markers and some pink silly putty.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/112008\/allentown_brew_works_pumpkin_ale.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/112008\/allentown_brew_works_pumpkin_ale_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The hoards of kids were a bit much, after the factory was some nice pub food at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrewworks.com\/allentown-brewworks\/\">The Allentown Brew Works<\/a>, where I enjoyed a tasty pumpkin ale, nom! Love pumpkin ale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weekends ago I went up to the Crayola Factory in Easton, PA with my friend Stephen. The &#8220;factory&#8221; was pretty much a big activity center geared toward kids. There were some cool displays about the history of Crayola, and a little demo factory with a whole presentation on the basics of crayon and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}