{"id":178637,"date":"2023-09-14T09:37:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=178637"},"modified":"2023-09-14T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:37:04","slug":"cool-uncle-tricks-how-to-stick-a-pencil-in-your-ear-and-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/leisure\/games-tricks\/cool-uncle-tricks-how-to-stick-a-pencil-in-your-ear-and-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Uncle Tricks: How to Stick a Pencil in Your Ear and Nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-178638\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CUT-Pencil-Trick-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CUT-Pencil-Trick-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CUT-Pencil-Trick-1-320x480.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CUT-Pencil-Trick-1-640x960.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>An essential part of&nbsp;<a title=\"How to Be an Awesome Uncle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/how-to-be-an-awesome-uncle\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">being an awesome&nbsp;uncle<\/a>&nbsp;is having a repertoire of tricks and jokes that will&nbsp;amaze your nieces and nephews, and crack them up. So from time to time we\u2019ll be offering you current and future uncles out there a tutorial on some gags that\u2019ll&nbsp;have them thinking you\u2019re the coolest dude in the world.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/tag\/uncle\/\">Check out all our Cool Uncle Tricks.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ol&#8217; stick-a-pencil-up-your-nose-and-in-your-ear trick will leave your young nieces and nephews shrieking with both joy and terror. All you need is a pencil or pen. You could even use a straw if you&#8217;re at a restaurant and are wanting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/people\/fatherhood\/9-ways-to-entertain-your-toddler-without-using-a-smartphone\/\">entertain a toddler without a smartphone<\/a>. Practice this trick in the mirror so you can see if you&#8217;re hiding the trick well enough. To add to the effect, make grimacing noises and faces to really sell the idea you&#8217;re actually shoving an object into your cranium.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essential part of&nbsp;being an awesome&nbsp;uncle&nbsp;is having a repertoire of tricks and jokes that will&nbsp;amaze your nieces and nephews, and crack them up. So from time to time we\u2019ll be offering you current and future uncles out there a tutorial on some gags that\u2019ll&nbsp;have them thinking you\u2019re the coolest dude in the world.&nbsp;Check out all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,229,42273],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-178637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-tricks","category-illustrated-guides","category-living"],"featured_image_urls":{"aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CUT-Pencil-Trick-1-1-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CUT-Pencil-Trick-1-1-320x177.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178674,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178637\/revisions\/178674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178637"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=178637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}