{"id":439,"date":"2012-10-27T12:29:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T03:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2012-10-28T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T04:01:38","slug":"the-island-where-people-forget-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/27\/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die","title":{"rendered":"The Island Where People Forget to Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ikaria.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-442\" title=\"Ikaria\" src=\"http:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ikaria.gif\" alt=\"Photo of a town on the Greek island of Ikaria\" width=\"240\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ikaria.gif 400w, https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ikaria-300x166.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Dan Beuttner for the New York Times Magazine <a title=\"The Island Where People Forget to Die\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/28\/magazine\/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">writes about a particularly healthy\u00c2\u00a0lifestyle<\/a> on \u00c2\u00a0an <a title=\"Wikipedia entry for the Greek island of Ikaria\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ikaria\" target=\"_blank\">isolated\u00c2\u00a0Greek island<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pointing across the Aegean toward the neighboring island of Samos, he said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just 15 kilometers over there is a completely different world. There they are much more developed. There are high-rises and resorts and homes worth a million euros. In Samos, they care about money. Here, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. For the many religious and cultural holidays, people pool their money and buy food and wine. If there is money left over, they give it to the poor. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcme\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 place. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 place.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The island is named after Icarus, the mythical flier whose foolish ambition led to an early demise. The inhabitants of Ikaria appear to have taken the lesson to heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Beuttner for the New York Times Magazine writes about a particularly healthy\u00c2\u00a0lifestyle on \u00c2\u00a0an isolated\u00c2\u00a0Greek island: Pointing across the Aegean toward the neighboring island of Samos, he said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just 15 kilometers over there is a completely different world. There they are much more developed. There are high-rises and resorts and homes worth a million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,56,27,33,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-environment","category-exercize","category-food","category-health","category-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}