{"id":1824,"date":"2007-01-07T23:38:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2007-01-07T23:38:10","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T23:38:10","slug":"an-ecological-success-story-from-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"An ecological success story from Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small, traditionally poor area, the <a href = \"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/from_our_own_correspondent\/6234553.stm\">Cinque Terre<\/a> is being transformed, apparently against the odds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;so successful is it becoming, that in recent years the residents of Riomaggiore and the other hamlets strung out along the Ligurian coast have been enjoying a lifestyle their predecessors could only have dreamed of.<br \/>\nCourtesy of the National Park, they now receive free natural medicine, massage treatments and health screenings.<br \/>\nThere is a free shopping service for elderly residents and subsidised child care for working parents. Cars are banned &#8211; replaced by electric buses.<br \/>\nIt has become a farming utopia; a place where tourists and others from outside are in the front line of conservation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small, traditionally poor area, the Cinque Terre is being transformed, apparently against the odds. &#8230;so successful is it becoming, that in recent years the residents of Riomaggiore and the other hamlets strung out along the Ligurian coast have been enjoying a lifestyle their predecessors could only have dreamed of. Courtesy of the National Park, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}