{"id":520,"date":"2009-10-11T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2009-10-11T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T16:00:27","slug":"keeping-warm-as-a-tightwad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/11\/keeping-warm-as-a-tightwad\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Warm as a Tightwad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I set up my netbook at my desk for the first time since I bought it.  I don&#8217;t often work from a desk, what can I say?  But when I&#8217;m studying from a manual to review to teach a class, I like a desk and a good surface to write on.   The increased real estate on my working surface is nice, lemme tellya.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been avoiding turning on the heat, but did briefly this morning before I realized I was being silly. \u00a0Yeah, it was 59F and all, but I have a wonderful warm slanket and portable warmers I can heat in the microwave and all that smack. \u00a0So, really, I was reacting to a number rather than a comfort level.<\/p>\n<p>I do have the thermostat on 55F, though. \u00a0If the temperature drops unexpectedly one night, I&#8217;d just as soon not wake up to frozen pipes. \u00a0Hypothermia isn&#8217;t an issue, as lots of blankets keep one toasty warm in bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set up my netbook at my desk for the first time since I bought it. I don&#8217;t often work from a desk, what can I say? But when I&#8217;m studying from a manual to review to teach a class, I like a desk and a good surface to write on. The increased real estate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/11\/keeping-warm-as-a-tightwad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keeping Warm as a Tightwad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}