{"id":4936,"date":"2010-08-09T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/09\/toddler-thermodynamics\/"},"modified":"2010-08-09T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T19:58:08","slug":"toddler-thermodynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/09\/toddler-thermodynamics\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler Thermodynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen in yesterday&#8217;s post, SteelyKid got a grill this weekend:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-40fbcbc309221296ef2b35b05035bce7-sm_grilling.jpg\" alt=\"i-40fbcbc309221296ef2b35b05035bce7-sm_grilling.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This led to one of the cutest toddler anecdotes to date, which I&#8217;ll put below the fold for the sake of those heartless souls who don&#8217;t like cute kids.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>SteelyKid was running around with an ice cube in a paper cup, because ice is pretty neat, and Kate&#8217;s mom asked what she had. SteelyKid sumped it out into her hands, and Kate&#8217;s mom said &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s cold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SteelyKid replied &#8220;I warm it up,&#8221; took the ice cube back, put it in the paper cup, put the cup on her toy grill, closed the lid for a few seconds, then brought it back. &#8220;Warm it up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t seem like the best time to explain to her about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enthalpy_of_fusion\">heat of fusion<\/a>. Maybe when she&#8217;s three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen in yesterday&#8217;s post, SteelyKid got a grill this weekend: This led to one of the cutest toddler anecdotes to date, which I&#8217;ll put below the fold for the sake of those heartless souls who don&#8217;t like cute kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-physics","category-silliness","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}