{"id":1058,"date":"2008-02-15T09:27:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T14:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/thermal-thief\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T09:27:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T14:27:46","slug":"thermal-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/thermal-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki suffers from a medical condition known as TDE or thermal deficiency in the extremities. It&#8217;s a common condition, runs in her family actually. It means that she ALWAYS has cold hands and feet. We are talking really cold, cryogenically cold. I can&#8217;t imagine something that cold belonging to a warm-blooded creature, it&#8217;s unnatural.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, predictably I am the target for all of her heat-seeking tendencies. In bed her freakishly cold feet seek my legs out, thermo-kinetically drawn to me as a heat source. I don&#8217;t stand a chance against those heat-dementors. Her bloodless, clutching undead toes seek out my warm flesh and mercilessly drain me of all heat and happiness.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, happiness is an exaggeration, but it&#8217;s darn cold and not much fun sometimes.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a strange dichotomy that Nikki&#8217;s personality is so warm and giving, while her feet are actually heat seeking wind-chill demons with a mind of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody else know someone like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki suffers from a medical condition known as TDE or thermal deficiency in the extremities. It&#8217;s a common condition, runs in her family actually. It means that she ALWAYS has cold hands and feet. We are talking really cold, cryogenically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/thermal-thief\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-h4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}