{"id":1326,"date":"2010-02-23T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2010-02-23T18:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:07:39","slug":"when-you-live-in-an-old-house-and-its-cold-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/when-you-live-in-an-old-house-and-its-cold-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"When you live in an old house and it&#8217;s cold outside.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..and you work from home and you&#8217;re freezing at your desk when you&#8217;re trying to work on project drafts:<br \/>\n1. Put on stocking cap and scarf and fingerless gloves.<br \/>\n2. Crank the heater up to a temperature slightly less than burning.<br \/>\n3. Sit on your hands as often as possible.<br \/>\n4. Drink lots of body warming fluids.<br \/>\n5. Find a temporary activity that gets you moving around.<br \/>\n6. Write slightly sarcastic blog posts about how you&#8217;re freezing to death.<br \/>\n7. Take pictures of things, like rusty toy Jeeps and snowy outdoors.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/colddays.jpg\" alt=\"colddays\" title=\"colddays\" width=\"470\" height=\"545\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/colddays.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/colddays-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><br \/>And then write about your temporary activity. Mine was to dig out my other 3 600 series Polaroid cameras that I had stuffed away. Two of these also came free from my favorite thrift store (<a href=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=1304\"><u>read previous post here<\/u><\/a>). I had one pack of Polaroid film which expired in 1995. I&#8217;m always hopeful, but alas it was nooooo goooood. But it still produced a pretty picture.. in my freezing opinion.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/deadpolaroids.jpg\" alt=\"Dead Polaroid Film\" title=\"Dead Polaroid Film\" width=\"470\" height=\"573\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/deadpolaroids.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/deadpolaroids-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><br \/>Back to work. I&#8217;m warmer now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..and you work from home and you&#8217;re freezing at your desk when you&#8217;re trying to work on project drafts: 1. Put on stocking cap and scarf and fingerless gloves. 2. Crank the heater up to a temperature slightly less than burning. 3. Sit on your hands as often as possible. 4. Drink lots of body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}